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From: 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
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Date: 4 Dec 90 01:47:00 GMT
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Date sent:  3-DEC-1990 20:56:41 
> 
>Several people have mentioned the Byte article which compared the Amiga
>favorably to the NeXT in terms of performance.  I chatted with Ben Smith,
>the author of the article, on BIX and he admits that he was comparing the
>yet-to-be-released Amiga 3000ux with the out-of-production 030 NeXTs.
>The article was very misleading in that it gave the impression that he
>was talking about the 030 and 040 NeXTs.  But he was not.
> 
>At any rate, the new 040 NeXTs have started shipping and the machine is
>damn fast.  It is in an entirely different class, performance-wise, than
>the Amiga 3000ux.

I figured as much.  I would not have expected him to compare two different
cpu speeds.  After all, he did say *equivalent* NeXT (I assumed that meant 
an '030).  Also, don't forget that the A3000UX can easilly accomodate an
'040 expansion board, which would put it back up in the same category.  I
think it is a clear analogy that if the '030 Amiga is faster than the '030
NeXT that an '040 Amiga will also be faster than an '040 NeXT, right?

On a similar idea, I believe the ultimate test of how well a program is 
written is to run it on a 7Mhz 68000 amiga :)  I would think it would be 
standard practice to optimize a program on such a platform, as the speed 
difference is most noticable at that level!


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