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- From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
- Subject: Re: '040 and SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.181737.27181@uwm.edu>
- Sender: news@uwm.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Jul22.015517.26439@sarah.albany.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:17:37 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet (Teddy Wang) writes:
- : Now this is a silly post! First off, you can get a used 2000 for around $500
-
- It's really not. Here's why:
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- :At least a month ago you could get the RCS Fusion Forty for $995. That's$1500
- : for an '040 machine! Add some 32bit ram and you'll be going 4 times faster
- : than a standard 3000. We're talking $2000 for a fully configured 17 MIPS
- :computer! Well lets, see I've seen standard A3000/16 for around $2000 (used of
- : course)!!! About bus speeds, unless the amiga gets someone serious to enter
- :the hardware seen (say someone comes out with a Zorro III SCSI-2 controller or
- : something like that,) you're not going to need the bandwidth. A good SCSI
- : controller will operate at about 1 to 2 megs per second, which is about the
- :maximum throughput of a fast SCSI drive (easily attainable with Zorro II and a
- : '040.) Yes if Zorro III had some good expansion development (like EISA is
- :now,)it would be worth the money to buy a 3000, but I don't know how you could
- :justify spending that kind of money on the 3000 - '040 but as it stands, Amiga
- :just doesn't have those devices...
-
- Yes, but there's another difference. The board on the 030 machines
- can generally make use of system ram at no difference to on-board ram.
- And then there's CHIP memory. Chip access on a 2000-040 is going to
- be really bad. Chip access on a 3000-040 isn't as bad.
-
- And there are lots of peripherals and system expansions that one would
- prefer a 3000 to have--If a 32-bit chipset ever comes out, it'll at
- least be more likely that something would be able to "retrofit" it
- onto an already 32-bit system rather than a 68000, 16-bit system.
-
- Greg
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