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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga mentioned in Personal Workstation
Summary: Well, it's exposure...
Message-ID: <19487@grebyn.com>
Date: 22 Mar 90 22:13:00 GMT
Reply-To: ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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Personal Workstation magazine for April printed a comparison of some low
cost multi-tasking workstations.  The comparison included the NeXT, HP
345, DG AViiON, Apollo 2500, and the Club American Hawk 486.  OK, the
Amiga was not in the comparison, but in a text box labelled "Workstation
on a Budget" is a short mention of the Amiga 2000 with a 32MHz GVP
accellerator.

The observations that were made were basically accurate. Some quotes:

"... Intuition is an acceptable graphical user interface, but I found
little to get excited about..." [ comments that only .info files are
shown on the workbench ] "... After a little use I thought that it was a
good introduction to a multi-tasking operating system."; "With the GVP
board the Amiga is at least competitive with a similarly configured
Macintosh..."; "At 6837 Dhrystones, the Amiga edged out the NeXT and
Apollo 2500, but the real difference was in floating point." [ Amiga
LINPACK: .230 SP MFLOPS, .171 DP MFLOPS; Mac: .172 SP MFLOPS, .146 DP
MFLOPS ]

Conclusion: "While it does well against the Mac, an Amiga with the
[GVP card] retails for over $5000, which places it in the range of
a 25MHz 386.  If number-crunching is your main objective, go with
the 386."