absolutely yes! depends on your model and use case .. workstation fans often have this reaction though. Please recall that performance is not one number. Someon

absolutely yes! depends on your model and use case .. workstation fans often have this reaction though. Please recall that performance is not one number. Someone/something has to write code in a language, invoke hardware well and efficiently, and return the results to a user or process. Drop-down menus meant that no way could the machine do math? hardly true.. Performance on benchmarks ? probably as the others say, you will never win like a horse race. Overall in the expanding world of digital signals, media and math ? yes.. the Motorola chips had access to RAM if you could get enough of it. RAM plus math gets you a lot of places. Virtual Memory is guaranteed RAM but at what cost? all things considered, yes the Motorola CPUs did bring something and it was a highly competitive time. edit right, add to that "digital audio signal processing" .. Virtual Memory paging was horribly obvious for Digital Audio, and that means stereo audio albums and digital audio soundtracks for movies, which was (and is) Big Business. Lots of hard math problems for geeks, lots of sales for business types.