Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> <12502@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 03:45:35 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > I don't think you can just drop a 25MHz 040 board in a 16MHz A3000 and > expect to get the same performance as a system that was designed to > run at 25MHz. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Like I have to ask. OK, you're wrong. The only things in the 16 MHz motherboard that differ from the 25 MHz motherboard are the clock setting and the 68030/68881. If you run a 25 MHz 68040 card you can override the clock and you don't need the 68030/68881. > BTW, $3250 is the price to beat. How about $500? As an applications platform, the Amiga 500 is pretty close, since it's not tossing CPU speed away on VM. Really, a stock NeXT is about as responsive as a Mac Classic, which the 500 has beat all hollow. Oh, sure, CPU intensive stuff will be faster on the NeXT. What CPU-intensive stuff do you get with the machine? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .