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From: uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 486 clone vs. Amiga 3000 (* YES I SAID 33mhz 486! *)
Message-ID: <1991May29.051603.14676@crash.cts.com>
Date: 29 May 91 05:16:03 GMT
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>>Eric Lee Green Writes:


>> Are you sure you're not talking about a 33mhz 80*3*86 system? 33mhz 80486's
>>only recently became available, I thought.
>>
>>In any event, note that: with the AMI motherboard, you need at least 2
>>banks of RAM to do interleaved access (i.e., get decent performance with
>>that cache), that the 40mb HD you're talking about is probably a cheap
>>Seacrate MFM or RLL drive with a huge interleave and a peak transfer time
>>somewhere between a stumble and a crawl, that the VGA controller you're
>>talking about is the bottom of the line 640x400x16 VGA with about 60
>>waitstates for each access to its onboard memory (no, I'm  *NOT* joking,
>>with a fast processor it really DOES need that many wait states)... in
>>other words, maybe the processor is going fast, but it sure does have a
>>slimeball of a system built around it!


An extra Meg of Memory Costs $60.00 from here in town.  The 40Mb HD
is by Western Digital and is an IDE type.  Of course it is cheap-o stock
VGA.  But I just pointed out that 80486 systems are cheap, at least
in this area, 33Mhz 80486's that is.  25Mhz are even cheaper.
The cost to upgrade the system to a 100M connor IDE drive is
$400.  To 1024X768 SVGA is another $250.00. So to re-iterate a system
more to your needs:

80486 W/ 4Mb of RAM, 512k SVGA card & SVGA monitor, 100M Conner IDE
drive, 80486 at 33Mhz AMI motherboard with 64k cache is $3325.00


The base system, that is stock VGA (640X480 16 colors on a 16 bit VGA card)
with 1M of RAM and a 40Mb Western Digital IDE drive, costs $2475.00

Note if you do not need an AMI motherboard, there are cheaper
33Mhz 80*4*86 systems to be had in this area.


Not that I like the systems mind you, just that I look around and
see they are CHEAP!

-Roger

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