Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: Date: 18 Nov 90 08:12:31 GMT References: <7057@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: joseph@valnet.UUCP's message of 17 Nov 90 19:51:44 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: client6.cs.psu.edu In article joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: Have you seen the SPARCstation II? It blows away the NeXT, and one of the only competitors would be the DECstation or maybe the A3500 w/68040 @ 50 mhz. (There are other workstations that would do, but with the SPARC II, NeXT is ouw of the picture. And a Cray blows away a SPARCstation II!!! The SPARCstation II costs three times as much as a NeXT Station. The SPARCstation II has a SPECmark of 21. I haven't seen any SPECmarks for the new NeXT, but it's probably around 14. You also seem to have forgotten about the IBM RS/6000 series. They have a very good price/performance ratio. And then there is the MIPS Magnum... -Mike BTW: Motorola doesn't even have the bugs out of the 25MHz 040. Don't you think the A3500 w/ a 50MHz 040 is wishful thinking at this time?