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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: '030 Ami vs '040 NeXT
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.223439.21741@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 90 22:34:39 GMT
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garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>[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)?

  More importantly perhaps, have there been any postings comparing the
performance of an A3000 running AmigaDos to an A3000UX (running SVR4
AND X)?   
^^^^^^
  Until people have actually come back with real-life reports about
the responsiveness of A3000UX with X, I can't see how they can
compare it to something like the NeXT...


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