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From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari-To-Amiga Convert Info Source!
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Date: 25 Jun 91 17:33:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.222634.30979@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	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,

I am trying to avoid any kind of war, this comp.sys.atari.st news is
not for these types of postings.  SOOOO after this posting please
send all responses to the posting to me and not post it here.

>(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.

MFLOPS is a better measure than MIPS, the 68040 25 does about 3.5 MFLOPS,
the i486-25 with Weitek 4167 does 10+ MFLOPS and the ranges of MIPS for
the 486-25 is from 11 to 15 MIPS.

>	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.

I know the A3000 is a non flicker machine, but machines upto it isn't
without the flicker fixer.  I use to be an AMIGA crazy person so
I know the kind of things that AMIGA can do, but it is not that great
it pushed me back to using the ST.

REMEMBER PLEASE RESPOND THIS POSTING BY MAIL.
TO THE PEOPLE ON THIS NEWS, SORRY.
chuj@horton.colorado.edu

							Jeff