Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!aplcen!jhunix!barrett From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A different review of the A3000 Message-ID: <5203@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 8 May 90 14:20:37 GMT References: <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 17 In article eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > Come on!!! The A3000 out benches and outperforms ALL Sun-3's and >before, and is in the same performance ballpark as the SparcStation. Reality check -- no way! The A3000 is a cool machine, but it is not "in the same performance ballpark as the SparcStation". Reports say that the A2500/30 did about 7000 Dhrystones/sec. So maybe the A3000 does 8-9000. The Sparc does over 22,000. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett, Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////