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- From: se2dmg@dmu.ac.uk (David McGlashan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NewTek SHIPS Lightwave 4.0/Amiga!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 10:33:56 GMT
- Organization: Pink Pig Software
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- > Let's not get into x86 vs. 680x0 wars again. The x86 has finally won
- > out, through brute force. If they were making 68060s at 100mhz or more
- > then it would be a different story, but the buck stops with the 060/50
- > and that is far slower than the fastest available Pentiums.
- >
- > The 68K line will always be remembered as more efficient than the x86 line
- > at a given clock speed, especially when you consider the OS most people
- > run on x86 machines, but ultimately they lost the clock speed race.
-
- Well to quote my Computer Architecture Lecturer:
- "Intel's 8086 is a grotty little processor. The 68000 is much better."
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- David McGlashan
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