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- From: "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org>
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 14:31:20 GMT
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- koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) wrote:
- >kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey) wrote:
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- ??> : Even a full-blown 68030 is a incredibly slow by today's standards.
- AB> slow for PC type OS's - the Amiga can do a lot with that power.
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- SK>Yes, for OS stuff the Amiga zips along rather well, but there are plenty
- SK>of computationally bound tasks for which an efficient does nothing.
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- ??> : running at least an '060 (which is still slow) they're doomed.
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- AB> 060`s are by no means slow - as fast as pentiums in fact.
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- SK>Perhaps as fast as the very slowest 60 Mhz Pentiums, in some cases. But
- SK>in general no, they are not. And Pentiums are one generation old now.
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- SK>I hate the 80x86 as much as anybody, but one thing that cannot be denied
- SK>is that they have managed to make it very fast. Much faster than the
- SK>baddest 68060 you can buy.
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- SK> - steve
- --
- I hate the Intel line of processors also. Makes me wanna squash
- them like the bugs they are . . hehehe.
-
- Anyway, don't mean to burst your bubble, but tests performed by
- Amiga Computer magazine show that the 50 MHz '060 is on par with
- renderring speed compared against a P90. Gee, Motorola has a
- better designed chip maybe?? I think so.
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