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Re: Mma on PowerMac 8100 vs. Mma on PowerMac 9500

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  • Subject: [mg4348] Re: Mma on PowerMac 8100 vs. Mma on PowerMac 9500
  • From: mrjohns2 at uiuc.edu (Matthew Johnson)
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 01:00:33 -0400
  • Organization: Student of Chemical Engineering at UIUC
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Are the macs set up the same?

memory, system, cache, inits, ram, etc, monitor bit depth?

matt


In article <4qqn7v$49m at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, Elias Saab
<mathes at esaab.math.missouri.edu> wrote:

>I executed the following cell on a PowerMac 8100/100
> and a PowerMac 9500/132
>
>It took 2.1 seconds on the 9500 and .46 second on the 8100.
>It is strange. Any idea why?
>Elias Saab
>
>In[178]:=
>Clear[x,y,surface,f]
>f[x_,y_]= x y;
>surface=ParametricPlot3D[
>{{x,y,0}, {x,y,f[x,y]}},{x,0,2},{y,0,1},
>ViewPoint->{2.5 ,1.7, 1.4},
>BoxRatios->{2,1,2},AxesLabel->{"x","y","z"}]//Timing

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