Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX Seems Fated Message-ID: <7295@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 02:51:39 GMT References: <39304@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 16 In article <39304@nigel.ee.udel.edu> ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter) writes: > This is the part I was disputing. Since UNIX only cares about memory > and disk speed private busses for these things make the issue much > less straight forward than you are assuming. You're missing the big one: VIDEO. Do you know how many wait states it takes to go from a 33 MHz 386 to a typical VGA card? Neither do I, but it was 17 wait states on the 16 MHZ machine I was using for X. Puts the overhead of Amiga high res screens into perspective, eh? And those Sun River fiber optic workstations must chew up quite a bit of CPU. Plus, a 16 MB hard memory limitation isn't to be sneezed at, either. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .