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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <17611@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 17:19:41 GMT
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In article <1991Jan15.015644.24380@rice.edu> jsd@pygmy.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes:
>In article <17564@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>Correct me if I'm wrong but the DSP on the NeXT is much more usefull than 
>not having one at all.  

You missed the point.  Of course having something is more useful than having
nothing.  That's not what you have here.  You get a DSP in return for MONEY.
That same money could have been spent on something far more useful, such as
accelerated graphics.  Or it could have been left as an option, to cut the
cost of a machine.

>|> Workstations just about require these days is at least 1.5-2 MFLOPS or better.

>I guess you haven't seen the stats on the 040.  It does 2 MFLOPS at 25 MHz.

I have known about the 68040 for more than a year.  However, NeXT chose to use
the DSP when they were building 68030 machines and calling them workstations.
Most of the competing 68030 workstations (like HP, Apollo, etc) had faster
math options as well as a basic 1/3 MFLOPS 68882.  A good floating point DSP
can peak at 50 MFLOPS, which would be quite useful for many of the workstation
type operations NeXT is supposedly interested in serving.

>r  jsd@owlnet.rice.edu                                       r


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