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From: admiral@m-5.Sun.COM (Michael Limprecht SUN Microsystems Mt. View Ca.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga outclassed
Summary: let's see the Specmarks
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Date: 28 Mar 90 21:34:59 GMT
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In article <10298@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> In article <53218@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.llnl.gov.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
> 
> >  BTW, I was very impressed with the speed of the windowing interface
> >(ie Multifinder). It appeared to be much more responsive than X11R4 
> >running on my SparcStation. 
> 
> Most versions of UNIX aren't really set up very well for a single user
> on a GUI based workstation.  They just aren't responsive enough.  Add
> to that the client/server nature of X (one of its best features, by the
> way, but a bottleneck) vs. the Mac's quickdraw (a series of subroutines)
> and it's really no surprise the Mac appears more responsive.

Very True, X still need work for a sigle user system.
> 
> >They were running it on a IIfx, but that is still probably a factor of 
> >2 less horsepower than the sparc. 
> 
> I wouldn't bet on a factor of two difference, if Apple did their job on
> the 40MHz '030 and support hardware.  At least for integer operations,
> the '030 won't be all that much slower.  For floating point, I'd expect
> the SparcStation to be 3x-5x the '030/'882 speed.
> 
> >They ran a spirograph line drawing demo and it was blazingly fast. 
> 
> If they're using the smart display card, they may be running a CPU with
> MORE integer performance than the SparcStation's SPARC.  That 29K is
> a little weird, but it's plenty fast.  Also a register-window machine,
> like the SPARC.
> 
I'm not so sure. Let's stop the hype and conjecture and see the Specmarks
on th FX. If their UNIX can run them. My guess is they won't try, because
they know as well as the rest of us that a brand new FX doesn't keep up
with a year old SS-1. But you know I'm a little biased on this matter.

BTW, I wonder what the Amiga/030/UNIX box peaks at??

How about it CBM? Join the Specmark crew if your serious about UNIX.
Apple too, then we can have a common ground for comparison.

-Mick
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