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- From: gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 23:30:51 GMT
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- Sander Pilon wrote in <4kdf4l$69v@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> on 09-Apr-96 10:45:41 :
- >In article <4kd2hc$m2b@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl
- >(Harold Klink) writes:
-
- >> Peecee?! Can you eat that?! PC......PC.....Pocket Calculator?!
- >>
- >
- >-Dont get me wrong. I've had an amiga for 9 yrz. (since ks 1.2) I've
- >programmed every byte of it. (Both os & hardware) -
- >
- >But i'd -really- like to see some benchmarks of an 68060/66 compared to my
- >P133.
- >(Dont gimme the Amiga-os-is-better-crap or anything. Just the CPU
- >benchmarks.) Then see who's the pocket calculator here.
- >
- > Sander
-
-
- Benchmarks don't mean shit if the OS and architecture aren't upto scratch. A lot
- of PC software is written in High level languages which hardly makes the
- applications efficient, a lot of Amiga apps use a combination of C and Assembler
- which means they are usually more efficient.
-
- One of the major comparisons made in the 80's was between the 8Mhz 68000 in the
- Atari ST and the 7.14Mhz 68000 in the A500, the ST users always claimed their
- machine was faster, the benchmark test probably would of said the processor was
- faster but the ST didn't have the Amiga custom chips, which gave the A500 the
- advantage.
-
- I've used a fast Pentium and I'm not impressed, Win95 or Win 3.11, they are both
- awkward to use compared to the Mac or Amiga. The Pentium PC seems to grind the
- harddisk (using the swapfile) every time you do something, even on a 16Meg
- machine.
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-