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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:49:28 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Okay post some application benchmarks.
-
- >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.
-
- Then again. I can find plenty of applications that run faster on the Mac
- than a similarly priced PC. Can you find aplications that run faster
- on a similarly equipped or priced Amiga than they do on a PC. Well.
- since there aren't that many applications that run on both the Amiga and
- the PC, what about similar applications?
-
-