one way to do a benchmark

I had copied it from the google mail article into a find box, and then clicked thru the link. It didnt find it. On my box this label is on the "fold" and I did not spot it. Also I have seen similar performance with a Microdata 1600 emulator that I have, though I do not have a comparison. It is amazing what the current generation of processors can do when emulating older technologies. Any ideas why the 8/16 bit 6502 runs so much faster on Intel, when the Hercules 370 (which is 8/16/32) and 390 runs much faster on power / Mac than on Windows? I am only talking instruction execution here, not I/O. Also from his note on the G4 vs G5 comparison, would the exact same executable run on both processors under whatever Mac OS 10 you have, so would that maybe explain the G4 being faster than the G5? Jim