Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!neon!torrie From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Amiga ad infinitum. Message-ID: <1990Dec8.061747.18330@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 8 Dec 90 06:17:47 GMT References: <40996@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 28 greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: >In article WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU > (Marc Barrett) writes: >> For Iowa State's Project Vincent research grant, ISU is getting a large >>number of DECStation 2100 systems from DEC for approximately $3000 each. >>These are RISC systems with approximately the same overall performance > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ >>as a 25Mhz 68030 system, and include a 104M hard drive, 12M of RAM, 19" > ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ >Marc, I hope you don't think that machines like this new DEC are going to >revolutionize the workstation market. A RISC box with the "same overall >performance of a 25Mhz 68030 system" is disgracefully slow by today's >standards... Actually, the DECStation 2100 has been out for well over a year. It's just that DEC has dropped the bottom out of the price recently. The chip in the DECStation 2100 is a 12.5MHz R2000, which is rated at about 9-10 MIPS ( take MIPS to mean what you will ). I programmed and used 2100s for about a year, and in my experience, they are easily two times as fast as a 25MHz 68030, more so on floating point. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "I didn't get where I am today without knowing a good deal when I see one, Reggie." "Yes, C.J."