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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 06:27:37 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen) writes:
-
- : >On Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:51:39 GMT David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- : >> On 26 Mar 1996 05:15:43 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
-
- : >A Pentium 120 doesn't have twice the performance of an 060.
- : >Get some facts and rerun your calculation. And try avoiding
- : >division :-)
-
- : According to Motorola, the (unreleased) '060-66 is slower than both the
- : Pentium-66 and 601-66 in integer and slightly faster than the Pentium-66
- : in floating point. A pentium-120 is more than twice as fast as an '060-50.
-
- I dont beleive that.... But its easy to prove. we can come up with a
- little test that we can run on both chip? Like a true color tmapping
- loop ?
- BTW, this would be a very good thing too, so everyone can really see how
- bad the x86 inst set is. (The x86 is 10 time more shity then you
- can beleive)
-
- : Even according to Amiga Shopper the '060-50 is only a little more than
- : twice as fast as an '040-28:
- : Straight from Amiga Shopper:
- : LightWave (time for a hi-res render with shadows)
- : Warp Engine 68040 / 28Mhz 940 seconds
- : Warp Engine 68040 / 33Mhz 807 seconds
- : CyberStorm 68060 / 50Mhz 407 seconds
- : Imagine (hi-res scanline render)
- : Warp Engine 68040 / 28Mhz 289 seconds
- : Warp Engine 68040 / 33Mhz 251 seconds
- : CyberStorm 68060 / 50Mhz 119 seconds
-
- : Certainly doesn't seem like the speed increase is worth over $1000
-
- Humm, who wrote the 060 optimized code for lightewave/imagine?
-
- 1000$ is alot to put a 50mhz 060 in an old 680x0 design....
-
- If its true that the 060 cheaper then the 040, and walker still dont
- take advantage of the mmu ot fpu.. why AT didn't took the time to fit
- walker with a 060 socket?!?! Yea, I remember, CBM mentality, the one that
- killed them... cut corner to make cheap HW and sell it at super high
- price.
-
- Stephan
-
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