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- From: c948374@lillep.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen)
- 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?
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- Date: 10 Apr 1996 22:58:03 GMT
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- On 9 Apr 1996 19:49:28 -0600 Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- > gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi) writes:
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- > >Sander Pilon wrote in <4kdf4l$69v@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> on 09-Apr-96 10:45:41 :
- > >>
- > >>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
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- > >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.
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- I remember this one from a german computer exhibition:
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- Scene rendering in LightWave 4:
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- Amiga (060@50 Mhz) 0:55
- PC (Pentium@90 Mhz) 1:20
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- > 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?
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- LightWave is one.
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- Regards,
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