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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 486 clone vs. Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <1102@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 91 15:54:44 GMT
References: <1991May12.211848.7252@athena.mit.edu> <o#3H6uz@cs.psu.edu> <48814@ut-emx.uucp> <24739@well.sf.ca.us> <00674274081@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM> <19281ef1.ARN1fbd@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>
>Nortons SI reported 38x XT speeds.  My A2500 with 68030 (30Mhz) does 36x XT
>speeds.  And of course Motorola chips aren't braindeaded by having 640K chunks
>of memory.
>

Norton's SI is a notoriously awful benchmark, fooled by many different things.
Intel chips, starting with the 386 have flat address spaces.  It is MS-DOS
that is braindead, not the microprocessor.  Please get informed before you
flame.

>
>Dac
>
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