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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter
- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy
- Message-ID: <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 22:04:13 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: What organization???
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- In article <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU writes:
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- > That's quite funny, since PC mag did a review on how the 040-25 matches
- > up to a DX2 486-50, the 486 blew the doors off the 040.
- Why has the 040 doors? And who cares about a 486 blowing off the doors of a
- 040? Is that significant? Does it say anything about the work one can do with
- such a beast?
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- > And look at your specs bud!
- I don't have specs.
-
- > According to BYTE mag, the 040-25 runs with 2.4 MFLOPS, and then
- > the 486-33 does 2.6 MFLOPS w/o a weitek 4167.
- > Then look at your MIPS, etc...
- I don't have MIPS.
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- BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
- MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
- numbers do to anyone?
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- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
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