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Re: G3 B&W vs 7600



Hi,

On Fri, 16 May 2008, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Depends what you need. The 7600 uses a 50MHz CPU bus, the G3s are
> faster ( 66MHz or 100MHz ) but that might be sufficiently compensated
> by a big and fast L2 cache.

From what I understand when you put an excelerator card in the older mac,
it will increase the bus speed. Although, it may never get over 50 mhz.

 > > I have also looked at the Workgroup Server 7350. That looks like it is
> > almost the same system. Of course, I don't have one to compare. Would
> > anyone have either of these they would like to sell?
>
> Yeah, the Workgroup Servers were pretty much ordinary Macs with low
> end graphics hardware and occasionally a SCSI card.

I guess then the question would be if I would have to use a serial
console?

Thanks,
Al




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