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From: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source!
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 22:26:34 GMT

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

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