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From: cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz)
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Subject: Re: Surely a IIFX blows an Amiga 3000 away, right?
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Date: 11 Oct 90 00:21:37 GMT
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In article <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu (Mike Gleason) writes:
>A friend of mine recently was bragging that an A3000/25/50 running the
>AMAX-II mac plus emulator was leaving various Mac II's in the dust.
>They were running Speedometer 2.5 and came up with following results:
>
>KWhets/sec: 882.4 (using FPU) 39.4 (not using FPU)
>Dhrys/sec:  2871 FPU, 2717 not
>Sieve:      3.70 sec FPU, 3.83 sec    
>Savage err:  7.988e-10, 2.297e-11
>Savage time: 8.52 sec FPU, 71.43 sec
>Savage iterations: 25000 FPU, 5000
>
>CPU test: 6.40 (no FPU)
>Math:     95.27 FPU, 5.24
>Performance:  5.42 (no FPU)

I'd be curious to see how various Macs performed.

>
>Of course he was comparing it to relatively slow Mac II's like the cx.
>Would someone with a IIFX screamer post some results so I can show my
>haughty amiga friend up?  If someone has a souped up mac that would be

You might end up looking a little silly when you realize that you
could have THREE complete A3000/50/25mhz machines (with COLOR monitors)
for the price of one IIfx color system.

>faster than an fx,  post 'em.  Hmm, why not make this the world's
>fastest 680x0 machine contest?

I'm sure the winner wouldn't be a Mac or an Amiga.  Probably, one of
the screamer workstations would win.

>_____________________________________________________________________________
> * Mike Gleason                                      252u3129@fergvax.unl.edu
> * "Don't you f*ckin' look at me!" -- D. Hopper       cosc006@unlcdc2.unl.edu
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OK, I won't! :-)

Cheers,

Chris


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