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From: ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000UX Seems Fated
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Date: 16 Dec 90 17:57:39 GMT
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>       An Amiga 3000, with an '030 or a '040 would leave a '386 or '486
>system in the dust when it comes to hard drive and memory transfer speed
>over the bus, even if the PC was using an EISA bus. Not to mention that the
>3000 will AUTOMATICALLY recognize over 1.2 GIGABYTES of RAM, with no user
>configuration whatsoever.

Unfortunately you are missing out on how the current crop of PC's handle
High throughput devices.  Most of the '386 and '486 machines have private
memory buses which are not only 32 bits wide but extremely fast since
they are very specialized.  Some of the newer machines also implement
SCSI devices in the same manner. Thus your argument about slow ISA
and EISA buses doesn't apply to memory and sometimes doesn't
apply to hard disk access.  These things then become very machine
specific.  I'm not advocating any particular point of view about the
relative speed/value of PC's versus Amiga's (grown out of that). Just
trying to point out some mis-information.

                              -- Scott. (ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu)




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