Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!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: <5212@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 9 May 90 14:35:16 GMT References: <135251@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5203@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <3268@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 25 I wrote: >> A3000 is a cool machine, but it is not "in the same performance >> ballpark as the SparcStation". In article <3268@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP> eric@rorschach.UUCP (Eric Quintana) writes: >However, an A3000 with an 040 SHOULD be "in the same performance ballpark as >the SparcStation." Oh sure. So would an IBM/XT, if you replaced it's processor with a 50 MHz 80486. That's irrelevant. We're comparing an EXISTING A3000 with an EXISTING Sparc. Of COURSE a machine goes faster if you add a faster processor. Sheesh! >But alas, these cards do not exist today. And it is silly to compare an existing machine (SPARC) to one that *might* exist in a year's time. 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 | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////