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- From: Mike chnabel <schnabel@crow.ewd.dreo.dnd.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:29:33 -0800
- Organization: Defense Research Establishment Ottawa
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- Mike wrote:
-
- > >However, development boards are being shipped
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > How much (ukp)? how do I get one (seriously;)
-
- You must be a software developer I believe. Anyway, Phase 5 has built
- them and were showing them of at the World Of Amiga show in Toronto last
- month
-
- > >that will upgrade any Amiga to PPC.
- > Presumably not "any" ...just A3/4000 for now...
-
- The guy from Wonder computers that was there said they told him that
- Upgrades would eventually be available for older Amiga models as well ie
- 500/2000
-
- > > This is about a 4 fold increase over pentium speeds. I realize at
- > 4x? thats the ppc620 then is it?
-
- They said 620 eventually, I was looking at 604, but the 603 were not
- quite as fast.
-
- I did do some math wrong though. the benchmarks I saw said P-100 80
- MFLOPS, Power amiga 240 MFLOPS (only 3x on 4, my mistake), and A4000 040
- at 25 MHz 10MFLOPS
-