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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne C Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <5812@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 17:44:46 GMT
References: <13479@baldrick.udel.EDU> <9884@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <100578@convex.convex.com>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <100578@convex.convex.com>, swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
> In article <6398@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
> >In article <3951@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>                                     [...]
> >>...based on pure processing performance, the 68040 IS Faster...

All of this talk about a 68040 being faster than anything isn't worth 
anything until one can get a 68040 in a real system.  So far it is just
a bunch of talk.  The 68040 is just being sampled now.  There is no way
the a company like Commodore is going to be able to get a 68040 based
computer out this year.  Face it, we will be luckly to see a 68030 based 
3000 out this year.  

When the 68040 is out in systems, it will make some sence to talk about
its speed compared to a sparc or 88K or whatever.  However until there are
some real 68040 systems out it isn't really possible to compare performance. 
 
                                                     Wayne Knapp