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From: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
Message-ID: <678@storm.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 06:10:48 GMT
References: <16321@brahms.udel.edu> <25671@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <21930@well.sf.ca.us>
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In article <21930@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John "Vlad" Adams" writes:
>
>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 lucky to approach
>1 MFLOP.  {

Are we talking about the 68882 FPU for the amiga!? 1 MFLOPS !? Ha!! If a
50 MHz 882 approaches .5 MFLOPS I would be impressed.