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From: fmcphers@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU (Frank McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
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Date: 3 Dec 90 21:30:42 GMT
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In a recent comp.sys.amiga.whatever article, a non-.sig-using entity from the
"Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link" states::
>An Amiga 3000ux will crank out 5 Mips.  The 040 NeXTs crank out 15-20 Mips
>(both sets of figures are from Motorola).  The 040 NeXTs do nearly 3 MFLOPS,
>the floating point coprocessor on the Amiga 3000ux will be luck to approach
>1 MFLOP.

I almost feel bad about getting in to this obvious "my-computer-beats-your-
computer" thread, but not quite.  (I don't feel bad enough about it not to get
in to it)
	You say that the 3000ux will "crank out 5 mips", then say the 040 NeXT
will "crank out 15-20".  Figures courtesy of Motorola, you say.  I have no 
reason to doubt you, so I won't say anything about that, except for being 
interested in how such an answer was arrived at.
	I do, however, take exception to the assertions concerning the 
MFLOPS of both machines.  "nearly 3" and "will be lucky to approach 1" isn't
precise enough for this arguement.  They suggest that you don't know for sure,
you're just pulling out some numbers which sound nice.  Don't post something
you can't quote with better references, especially if you're knocking a 
computer in its' home newsgroup.  You're going to get flamed.  Now, if you'd
post real numbers along with their sources, that wouldn't be quite so bad....

-- Frank McPherson                  INTERNET: fmcphers@vttcf.cc.vt.edu --