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- From: bgilbert@cs.washington.edu (Ben Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: ST FORMAT DO IT AGAIN..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.185921.9035@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov9.103328.24501@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 18:59:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.103328.24501@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> sergio@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Sergio) writes:
- >Hi ,I have just recently been to the Future Entertainment show {in England
- >in London} where I bought a show programme, and in the part where the ST
- > FORMAT {re Future Publishing} lot where talking about the new Falcon
- >I happened upon some rather interesting specs..
- >
- >
- >qoute {as far as I can remember}
- > "...the standard Amiga and ST run at around0.25 MIPS whereas the new
- > Falcon will be running at 30 to 35 MIPS..."
- >
-
- Just remember that MIPS stands for "Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed"
- (and various similar things :-). Although the DSP is rated somewhere above
- 20 MIPS by itself, maybe this is what ST Format was thinking of when they
- said that. Who knows, maybe they thought with the DSP at 25 MIPS, say, and
- the 68030 CPU at, say, 5 MIPS, you could get 30 MIPS... Kind of
- a hokey comparison if you ask me. :) Anyway, it should be pretty fast, and
- _really_ fast in running programs which can utilize the DSP intensively.
-
- >
- >
- >I thought these spec rather dubious ( as they also said that the Falcon was
- >a 16Mhz '030 ... *8-) {I understand that it also has a 16 bit address bus ?}
-
- Why do people keep saying it has a 16-bit address/data bus? Atari's own
- oficial brochure says "32-bit data bus, 32-bit address bus." This seems
- clear enough to me, and I really doubt that Atari could get away with
- printing lies in their brochures. That's against the law in the U.S.A.,
- besides it wouldn't do a heck of a lot for the loyalty of the customers
- either.
-
- > ****
- > I repeat ,these are not my specs but ones I read in ST Format
- >show columns ****
- >
- >please all flames by email to stformat only { if they have any such thing }
- >or by snail mail well thats all I had to say except that yet again ST Format
- >confuse the public
- >
- >
- >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- >|My sig has Runaway again , I just don't understand I do so much for It. |
- >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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- Ben Gilbert e-mail : bgilbert@cs.washington.edu
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Washington
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