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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
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Date: 7 Dec 90 20:33:30 GMT
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Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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In article <9012040257.AA10743@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 91_bickingd@GAR.UNION.EDU ("Bicking, David") writes:
>Date sent:  3-DEC-1990 20:56:41 
>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?
>

Not necessarily.  Users who have the new NeXT 2.0 operating system
installed on 030 NeXT's claim almost twice the perceived performance
[I haven't seen any benchmarks to confirm this].  This just goes to
show that the operating system plays a non-trivial role in the
performance of a machine.  Out of curiousity have there been any
postings comparing the performance of an A3000 running AmigaDos to
an A3000UX (running SYSVR4)?
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas