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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX news
Message-ID: <3414@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 20:18:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <178@stbimbo.UUCP> jer@stbimbo.UUCP (John Ramspott) writes:

>                                                            The numeric
>value is HOW MANY TIMES FASTER than an A3000UX the listed item is. A 80286
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>box is .012 times faster (in other words much slower), while an RS/6000 is
>7.0 times faster.

     I hate to play net.grammar.police here, but the correct phrase
above is "how many times AS FAST AS", not "how many times FASTER THAN".
An 80286 box is .012 times (1.2%) as fast as the 3000UX - it's certainly
not 1.2% faster than the Amiga.

     Sorry to pick nits, but it really bugs me when people do things like
this.  (Also, that means that the RS-6000 is only SIX times faster! :-)

     Aside from that, it was good news to read, and certainly
gratifying to see the Amiga stack up so well against the competition
using hard figures instead of the usual marketing hype.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
My A1000 *is* a PC!  It says "Personal Computer" right on the box!