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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:35:56 GMT
-
- >gi@gj-cent.demon.co.uk (Gi) writes:
-
- >>Sander Pilon wrote in <4kdf4l$69v@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> on 09-Apr-96
- >>10:45:41 :
- >>>In article <4kd2hc$m2b@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl
- >>>(Harold Klink) writes:
-
- >>>> Peecee?! Can you eat that?! PC......PC.....Pocket Calculator?!
- >>>>
- >>>
- >>>-Dont get me wrong. I've had an amiga for 9 yrz. (since ks 1.2) I've
- >>>programmed every byte of it. (Both os & hardware) -
- >>>
- >>>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
-
-
- >>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.
-
- I'll try, using AREXX... I can probably do Lightwave, ImageFX1.51 and a few
- others...
-
- >>I've used a fast Pentium and I'm not impressed, Win95 or Win 3.11, they are
- >>both awkward to use compared to the Mac or Amiga. The Pentium PC seems to
- >>grind the harddisk (using the swapfile) every time you do something, even on
- >>a 16Meg machine.
-
- >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?
-
- Lightwave is known to run faster for the Amiga, as the code has been
- optimised for the 86k, unlike the PC code, which has just been compiled.
-
-