Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga outclassed Message-ID: <1990Mar20.024459.5030@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 20 Mar 90 02:44:59 GMT References: <90078.164636JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 67 In article <90078.164636JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes: >*sigh* It looks like the A3000 has been outclassed even before it >has been released: > >>Apple Introduces High-Performance Macintosh Products Truthfully, that doesn't sound like such a huge advance, at least not from that description. I don't know if that was the full press release or some watered-down news paper interpretation. 40MHz 68030 will be available from GVP very soon and I am hard pressed to believe that Commodore is not working on something faster than a 25MHz 68030. As to the DMA I/O through SCSI and custom I/O chips, I think that sounds awfully familiar, don't you? 8^> > > >Of course, you pay for all this.... > Of course you pay for it: this is Apple we're talking about. That is what gives the Amiga the advantage. Perhaps it will be somewhat faster than the 3000, but the price/performance ratio will probably still favor the Amiga, as always. > >It just looks as if this thing with Multifinder really could go faster than >any 25 MHz Amiga with an '030 on the board ... 40 MHz is nothing to sneeze >at. I think Apple has taken the wind out of any sail Commodore was to be >riding on with an A3000 announcement. UNLESS Commodore responds by announcing >the 3000 as a machine that rivals the IIfx for a lower price, then there could >be trouble.... I wonder what the speed comparison is with the GVP 40MHz board? Probably not that much of an improvement, if any. Note that I don't have benchmarks for either but they both appear to incorporate very nice technology. > >These opinions are mine and nobody else's. Period. No if's, and's, or but's. I think that goes for everything I've said as well! 8^> > > Kurt >-- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >|| Kurt Tappe (814) 862-8630 || "This town needs an enema." || >|| 600 E. Pollock Rd., #5705 || - Joker, "Batman" || >|| State College, PA 16801 --------------------------------------|| >|| jkt100@psuvm.bitnet or jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu || >|| or jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Compu$erve : 70137,3271 Anyone giving away Amigas or Sharp Scanners??? "If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'" -- The Bandito, inevitably stolen from someone else NewTek says, "if you are waiting for the toaster, get your bread ready." Well, I say my bread is now stale so they'd better be making a microwave!