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Narvi writes:
>
> > Not only is their gear proprietary, it's _slow_.  I'd prefer to run
> > FreeBSD on a Multia.
> 
> That is *why* you port not to apple hardware but to CHRP. As for slow - I
> don't really think the new CHRP machines are at least as quick as the
> Pentium II 300, if not quicker. See for example the machines on
> the Motorola Computer Group page...

I don't think Apple hardware is all that slow. What we are seeing lately is the MacOS has been terribly slow. System 7.6.1 runs apps much faster. System 8.0 is said to have similar performance gains. Apparently large portions of the system were (still are) emulated 68k code. Amazing.

As for speed, my PowerCenter Pro 210 is cranking out 565k keys/sec running the 2.002 client from http://rc5.distributed.net.  A FreeBSD P-133 is doing 160k, a FreeBSD 5x86/133-P75 is doing 120k. My SE/30 is doing 4k. Macintosh's are currently crunching 40% of the daily keys. And just pushed a Linux team out of the #1 spot.

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