Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!mtuni!psu
From: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Summary: What about the I/O speeds?
Message-ID: <2873@mtuni.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 90 00:42:47 GMT
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Reply-To: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu)
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I know that there's been a lot of argument over whether 68040 is faster than a
SPARC, but in my view, they are both fast enough, and discussion of speed is
going to go on forever because processors are usually good at some areas, but
not in others.

What's not discuss is the I/O speed.  I notice a lot of 386 clones these days
running at 33MHZ still have 8MHZ 16-bit AT bus, so the cpu outpaces the external
I/Os.  I am curious to see if this is true for Amiga also.