Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!mpirbn!p554mve From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Amiga ad infinitum. Message-ID: <1426@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> Date: 2 Jan 91 18:14:19 GMT References: <40996@ut-emx.uucp> Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn Lines: 16 In article <40996@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: >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... Except for the DECstation 2100 is about two times as fast as a 25 MHz 68030 and about 4 times as fast as a 25 MHz 68882 for floating point operations. Regards, -- Michael van Elst UUCP: universe!local-cluster!milky-way!sol!earth!uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve Internet: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."