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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- References: <1996Jan8.170620.26873@ned.cray.com>
- From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 11:30:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. Pentium PC
- Message-ID: <27660@lyssa.owl.de>
- Organization: Private Internet Ostwestfalen-Lippe
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- John Stiles wrote in comp.unix.amiga about "Amiga vs. Pentium PC":
- > What is the performance difference?
-
- A P90 with a decent (e.g. Trition) board is 15-20 times faster
- than a A3000/25.
-
- > Which platform has the better/more reliable releases?
-
- NetBSD-i386 works very stable for me, NetBSD-Amiga sometimes hangs
- due to SCSI problems caused by the Z3 Fastlane driver.
-
- > How much does SCSI vs IDE make a difference on a pc running netbsd or
- > linux?
-
- About $150, but the trouble you avoid by using SCSI is worth it.
-
- --
- Matthias Scheler
- tron@lyssa.owl.de
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