Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ism780c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: The whole silly Amiga/Atari battle Message-ID: <268@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 20:44:18 EST Article-I.D.: ism780c.268 Posted: Thu Jan 16 20:44:18 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 08:53:17 EST References: <1002@loral.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Distribution: net.micro.amiga Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 11 In article <1002@loral.UUCP> dml@loral.UUCP (Dave Lewis) writes: >machines are missing a major point -- BOTH are orders of magnitude better ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >than their competitors. Arguing over Dhrystone runs of 1,100 vs. 950 when the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >best an IBM PC can do is about 400! Really now. ^^^ I think you have been working in binary too long! Order of magnitude usually means 10 base ten, not 10 base 2. :-) :-) :-) -- Tim Smith sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim