Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!well!farren From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ..Most Excellent Message-ID: <18283@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 1 Jun 90 09:19:27 GMT References: <18017@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990May7.184749.20324@digibd> Lines: 15 eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > I have seen a 3000 and spent a couple of hours hands on. > A very nice machine, but the price is the real killer for now. >That's the only way in which it currently obsoletes the A2500/30. >The 16/2 (32-bit FAST/32-bit CHIP) Meg of on-board space is probably >the biggest difference from the 2500/30 (4/1 Meg 32-bit FAST/16-bit >CHIP) from a current performance point of view. As will undoubtedly be pointed out several times over, that is A biggest difference, but not THE biggest difference. The Zorro III bus provides another biggest difference, and the 32-bit DMA provides Yet Another biggest difference. The net result is significantly better speed than a 2500/30, especially on disk-intensive applications. -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us