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- From: kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PowerPC !
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 09:54:33 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
- Message-ID: <4h6hgp$fqo@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960220162223.624A-100000@scsscsc1.reading.ac.uk> <4gdgsa$bbm@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de> <4gpot8$l1h@murphy2.servtech.com> <4h57l1$rc5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca>
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- To: mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden)
-
- In article <4h57l1$rc5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca>, mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden) writes:
- > nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- >
- > : I have read the PowerAmiga is slated for 1st quarter 1997. PowerPC cards
- > : for exsisting Amigas should be out this summer from Phase 5.
- >
- > I know hardly anything about these PowerPC boards, so can someone answer
- > a few (maybe dumb) questions for me?
- >
- > What kind of speed will it have compared to an actual PowerPC? I had an
- > EMPLANT Deluxe in my A3000/030 awhile ago, and it ran dreadfully slow. I
- > don't want to have to add a 68060 to my A3000 to get something
- > half-usable, so I'm hoping this board will be decent in terms of
- > compatibility and speed.
-
- Well, my experience with A3000 vs PowerPC e.g. with a curve fitting program
- (floating point math + array addressing + local gfx)
- and looks like follows:
-
- A3000 (68030/882 @ 25 MHz): 29.2 secs
- Linux-PC (80486 @ 33 MHz): 7.2 secs
- RS6000/AIX (PPC601 @ 80 MHz): 0.8 secs
- (PPC604 @120 MHz): 0.4 secs
-
- Although the PPC seems to blow away the 68k stuff I've decided to upgrade
- my A3000 with an '060 board for the simple reason that I don't expect
- the PPC upgrade boards to work smoothly with all progs in emulation mode.
-
- > Also, what kind of projected price range will we be looking at? Will
- > there be any special requirements for this board, such as a minimun
- > amount of memory or processor, or a fast graphics card, etc.?
- >
- > Thnaks.
- >
- > --
- > / Mark Worden mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca \
- > | St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Member of TEAM AMIGA |
- > | "The smallest good deed is greater than the best good intention." |
- > \ "John Doe: generic tractor the John Deere Co. is coming out with." /
-