I don't know quite where to post this question, so it might as well be here.
I recently came across the observation [ http://lowendmac.com/tech/g3g4.shtml , toward the end] that a 604e can handle 64 simultaneous processes, whereas the G3 can handle only 4.
This is a question for the technological literati: Are there any circumstances under which this superiority of the 604e over the G3 can actually show up? Or is single-threading the killer, and is this fact a good part of the sense behind the old claim that the G3 was 'optimized for the way MacOS works'?
I recently came across the observation [ http://lowendmac.com/tech/g3g4.shtml , toward the end] that a 604e can handle 64 simultaneous processes, whereas the G3 can handle only 4.
This is a question for the technological literati: Are there any circumstances under which this superiority of the 604e over the G3 can actually show up? Or is single-threading the killer, and is this fact a good part of the sense behind the old claim that the G3 was 'optimized for the way MacOS works'?