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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Is the A3000 Really Worth Buying? An honest question.
Message-ID: <22004@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 May 91 16:25:58 GMT
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In article <126433@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> watters@favorite.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) writes:
>In article <21895@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>Rephrased, if you have a A2500/30 and would like to do Unix, for school, work,
>and fun, will it be nice (ie. not that bad), or should you regroup and get
>an A3000architecture machine?

The A2500/30 will run CPU intensive stuff nearly as fast as the A3000.  The
two main problems are disk and memory.  Disk speed will be almost as fast,
but the system throughput during disk activity will be much less.  Still better
than UNIX on most PClones or Macs, but if you're paging heavily, you'll notice
the difference.  The other problem is that the A2630 board is limited to 4MB
of 32 bit wide RAM on-board, and there are currently no daughterboards on the
market.  UNIX tends to be memory hungry, so a 4MB system will run slower than
an 8MB system, it'll require more paging.  

>I think we should call to votes a new newsgroup called:
>Comp.Sys.Amiga.Ask_Dave_Haynie!

Uh, maybe not...


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