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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 05 Feb 1996 10:13:23 -0700
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- bIn-reply-to: patrick@inlink.com's message of 1 Feb 1996 04:48:46 GMT
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- patrick@inlink.com (Charles Patrick Marks) wrote:
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- > powerful ppc are soon comming to market.
-
- What's "soon" though? AT claims early 97, and I personally guess more
- like late 97 or early 98. Maybe the PPC cards will arrive sooner, but
- even there, how long do you think it will be before a significant number
- of commercial applications are native?
-
- It sounds like the 68K emulation is no more than 040/25 speed, so you're
- better off with an 060 until native apps appear. And that's gonna be
- quite a while yet.
-
- Anyway, I guess I still believe the 68060 is useful. I don't expect to
- see native commerical PPC apps for quite some time. Getting a 2-5 X
- performance boost in the meantime is no small thing. It isn't in the
- Pentium or P6 class, but its the closest the Amiga can come to competing
- with PC performance at the moment - maybe gets us to a third of a fast
- Pentium instead of 1/10th for the 040.
-
- - steve (gonna get a 060 as his humble 040/25 is feeling a bit dated)
-
- PS - I sure hope that those Amiga users still using ECS or AGA and
- 68020s will actually buy PPC Amigas. If people insist on hanging onto
- hopelessly out of date hardware for years and years, the Amiga market
- *will* die completely.
-