Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UOTTAWA.BITNET!451061 From: 451061@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Valentin Pepelea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wish I had an Amiga 1500 Message-ID: <8907190550.AA17926@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 19 Jul 89 05:41:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 24 Stephen Orr writes in <15240@watdragon.waterloo.edu> > 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. You are mixing up three concepts here. There is the bus speed (28 MHz), then there is the processor speed (33 MHz) and its memory access speed (0 wait states). The GVP 030 board may indeed run at 33 Mhz and have no wait states when accessing its 32-bit wide memory, but that will in no way increase the Amiga's 28-MHz-you-say bus speed. Valentin _________________________________________________________________________ The godess of democracy? "The Name: Valentin Pepelea tyrants may distroy a statue, Phonet: (613) 231-7476 but they cannot kill a god." Bitnet: 451061@Uottawa.bitnet Usenet: Use cunyvm.cuny.edu gate - Confucius Planet: 451061@acadvm1.UOttawa.CA