Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher) Message-ID: <1991Jun20.015324.10408@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 01:53:24 GMT References: <71A0D62DC000263C@FANDM> <1991Jun17.124116.1900@sugar.hackercorp.com> <63@ryptyde.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 33 In article <63@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: > "Even the IIfx isn't as fast as a 3000/25." > That's bull. No, it's an assertion. A bull is a male herbivore, cetacean, or pinniped. > The IIfx will blow the 3000 away. That's not what posted benchmarks say. > It has two dedicated I/O > chips (SCSI DMA too, which can be used with Unix), That's really going to speed up numbercrunching now, isn't it? In any case, the Amiga has dedicated I/O chips, DMA, dedicated SCSI, and an expansion bus that's far better than NuBus (which is pretty much purely a peripheral bus). > and a killer graphics > coprocessed board (the 8-24GC) (which was released with the IIfx). That's really going to speed up number crunching, now, isn't it. > I doubt you've done any kind of serious benchmarks. No, I haven't. Have you? But at least I know what sort of hardware we're looking at. Do you? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"