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From: blf@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Bill Frandsen)
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Subject: Re: CMI Processor Accelerator for Amiga2000
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Date: 19 Mar 91 20:27:37 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.185203.3096@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>	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).

Hey, I'm not making up these numbers myself.  The program outputted these
results, so I included them.  As a matter of fact, SI calls up forbid()
thus, there is NO multitasking while it is figuring these numbers, all io
is temporarily halted.

PS: If someone is having problems emailing me, they just changed our mailer
again... the correct address is : "blf@gnu.ai.mit.edu"