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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Benchmarks for 3000 vs 2500
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Date: 9 May 90 05:34:55 GMT
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In article <11445@cbmvax.commodore.com> martin@cbmvax.UUCP (Martin Hunt) writes:
>One ST magazine I read even
>suggested that you were wasting your money buying a 25MHz 3000 because
>it would not run any faster than a 16 MHz machine!  

Gee, that's a good source for information regarding amigs... :)
These numbers look pretty familiar.  Here's an interesting question:

   Are they stock A3000's, or do they have some of those fast ZIPs n 'em?
   Could you do it on a Zipped machine?? :)
   Thanks!!
 
>The 3000 would probably benefit from static column DRAMS.  I haven't
>tried this yet.

Oops didn't see that, sorry...  Does anyone else have numbers for a
"zipped" machine?

>"dhrystone" to "dhry", I got an additional 900 dhrystones!

So we're talking 7900, or was that 6100 before renaming?

>So how fast is 7000 dhrystones? It's faster than a NeXT and all Mac IIs
>except the FX.  It's probably about the same as a 33MHz 386 without
>external cache.

Do you have those numbers available?  They would be highly appreciated
as well -- at least by me!  Thanks again...

>I know some of you were expecting to see numbers like 20000 or so.

Hey, we're not *all* that gullible, are we?  Well?  :) :)

>Martin Hunt                     martin@cbmvax.commodore.com
>Commodore-Amiga Engineering     {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!martin

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me