Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!simvax.labmed.umn.edu!davidli From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source! Message-ID: <1991Jun24.233531.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> Date: 24 Jun 91 23:35:31 GMT References: <1991Jun24.110408.29984@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <1991Jun24.172215.816@colorado.edu> <1991Jun24.222634.30979@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@cs.umn.edu (News administrator) Organization: Flying Taoist Graphics Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: simvax.labmed.umn.edu The following article belongs in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy. Please direct similar subjects to this newsgroup. In article <1991Jun24.222634.30979@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > In article <1991Jun24.172215.816@colorado.edu> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes: >> >>I wonder how far have you gone in comparing AMIGA machines to others, >>AMIGA Fusion Forty Accelerator board is worse than a 486-25 Performance. >>AMIGA flickers quite alot, NTSC standard VGA cards are available to IBM >>with non-flicker options. >> > The first point you make isn't a computer war, but a chip > war. The 040 is faster than the 486 at the same clock speed, > period. A 486/50 is probably marginally faster than the 040 > (except under MS-DOS), but it is still close. The 040 25MHz does > appr. 18-22 MIPS depending on who you believe (I know how > meaningless that is, but we are talking all CISC chips, not RISC, > so isn't a terrible statistic). I believe the 486 is about 12. > As to flicker, the A3000 comes with a flicker-fixer built > in. Commodore sells a board for just over $200 which will > deinterlace output on all 2000 machines. Both use standard IBM > VGA ports. There is a 3rd party deinterlacer for the 500 as well. > -- Ethan > > FF buckets of bits on the bus, FF buckets of bits. > Take one down, Pass it to ground, > FE buckets of bits on the bus. -- David Paschall-Zimbel davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu