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From: carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Surely a IIFX blows an Amiga 3000 away, right?
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.065532.11109@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 06:55:32 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.222343.8737@hoss.unl.edu>
Reply-To: carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support)
Organization: University Computing Service, Uni. of Sydney, Australia.
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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)
>
>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
>faster than an fx,  post 'em.  Hmm, why not make this the world's
>fastest 680x0 machine contest?

Since when have we Mac users been denegraded into comparing MHz, MIPs and
megaflops.  What happened to the Macintosh advantage?  Surely given that
a machine such as powerful as the Amiga 3000 described wouldn't change you
from a Mac to Amiga user... :)

On the other hand, I'm dying to find out too, so please do us all a favour.
Afterall, how can you push the Mac's advantages when you don't know the
competition's?  No matter what tho', nothing's going to change my liking
for the Mac, nothing that is, unless it's black...


Regards,
Norton Chia
Micro Support
(carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU)