Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb11.004854.24091@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 11 Feb 91 00:48:54 GMT References: <1991Feb9.032953.14709@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1519@pdxgate.UUCP> <43948@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 13 In article <43948@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > Well, the "really fast" quality of the NeXT will pale when the 040 cards ship > for the Amiga. Given the system architectures and OSes of the two machines, > the Amiga will be faster. Perhaps (Mach is technically superior to UNIX in many ways, so don't be too sure. Especially when a microkernel version comes out) but it will certainly be a lot more expensive. If you're spending more than either the A3000UX or the NeXT slab and absolute CPU speed is that important you should probably get a RISC box anyway. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .