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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Reply to: Questions about ST vs. AMIGA
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 15:19:22 EST
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In article <414@aum.UUCP> freed@aum.UUCP (Erik Freed) writes:
>
>I would still like to know why the Amiga even with a 68020 and fast memory
>still is *significantly* slower than the ST.

Because all the benchmarks are written in C.  It appears that the ST has
a better C compiler available then the Amiga.
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim