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From: sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500
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Date: 19 Jul 89 00:42:42 GMT
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While it is true that some of the new PC's (IBM machines) with 386's on board
are running at 25MHz, did you ever look at the bus sitting down there? It's 
probably running at about 12 MHz flat out. IBM busses have a real hard time
pushing bits any faster than that. The Amiga bus runs (even on a 500) at 
28 MHz, which is one reason why a 7.14MHz process can still in general
outstip a lot of 10MHz plus AT's. Further if GVP is to be believed, they 
have a board that runs 33MHz with 0 wait state capability. I'd be really
suprised if any of those PC lookalikes are pushing bits quite that fast.


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