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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: second thoughts on buying a 3000UX
Message-ID: <5PR9W6D@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:19:02 GMT
References: <61751@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <1135@applix.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1135@applix.com> scotte@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
> In the end, I decided to brew myself a 486/33 box.  It has up to now,
> satisified these requirements (and others) for X and unix development
> purposes.

Are you sure you got the better box? It's got more CPU than a 3000/25,
but unless the video RAM is on the motherboard and not going through the
slow slow slow IBM-PC bus the overall system is likely to be slower for
X work. Have you compared the X speed of the two boxes?

If anything, X is the big reason to go with the 3000 rather than a [34]86
box.
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