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From: jdickson@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jeff Dickson)
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Subject: Re: CMI Processor Accelerator for Amiga2000
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.185203.3096@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:52:03 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.205929.9435@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson)
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>CMI (Creative Microsystems Inc.) Processor Accelerator
> 
>Computing Performance relative to:
> 
>                   A1000  IBM/XT
>         Integer:   1.8     5.9
>  Floating Point:   3.2    24.2
> 
>Contact: blf@churchy.ai.mit.edu

	The Amiga's computing performance cannot be compared to that of the
IBM PC. The whole time the Amiga is cranking out these numbers, it is sharing
the CPU amoung several processes, tasks, devices, etc. You could only produce
accurate results if the Amiga were "dry" (not running anything else).

		-jeff