Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!storm!bostrov From: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: <677@storm.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 90 06:05:33 GMT References: <6057@crash.cts.com> <1990Dec5.061558.21893@engin.umich.edu> <1990Dec5.234035.23604@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom) Organization: storm UUCP, Eugene, Oregon, United States Lines: 36 In article <1990Dec5.234035.23604@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren Rittle) writes: >3) Ah, now the wild-card, the OS! UNIX, even NeXT Mach has quite >a bit of overhead even when just running normal user processes. >AmigaOS being a multi-tasking OS has overhead also, of course, but >it is on the order of 10% (Yes I have made some measurments myself!), >as compared to 30% to 50% for UNIX (CS friend looked into this out Mach is MUCH better than reg. Unix, though a bit worse than AmigaOS. Not much though. Overhead is somewhere like 15% for Mach. > >Add all this up and what do we see: >Yes, an Amiga with 030@50MHz running AmigaOS could compare to a >NeXT 040@25MHz running UNIX. I can't wait for 040 boards for >the Amiga when we will be able to see the 040 really fly. >So see, Ralph, this statement that Sean makes is really not out >of line. In terms of how responsive a system feels, AmigaOS >wins hands down over UNIX (even UNIX running with GUI on a >really big powerful and costly machine). Enjoy your new NeXT Really? I don't think so. Running X on a MIPS magnum or a DEC5100 (with whatever ontop of it) blows away the ami. Even the 040 ami and the 040 NeXT. A POWER/530 will crush the ami and the NeXT, and I mean crush on the order that a Cray YMP/8 will crush a HP9000/220. Admittidly, I havent seen any good games for the POWER. (or the cray, for that matter). - Vareck Bostrom ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ Vareck Bostrom ++ ++ bostrov@mist.cs.orst.edu ++ ++ bostrov%storm@cs.uoregon.edu ++ ++ ++ ++ All this signifigance ++ ++ what does it mean? ++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++