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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga vs. IBM-PC: A Performance Query
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 04:24:06 EDT
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>N times slower/faster than running it on a PC?  What would
>be the PC equivalent of the Amiga's 68000 @8Mhz?  Would it be
>a (an?) 8088 @6/8Mhz or a 80286 @6/8/10/12Mhz or ?

	An 8088 at around 10-16 Mhz, I would guess.  That is, if you can
stand the @#$@ segmentation model and lack of registers (and this applies
to 68020/80286 comparisons as well).  Although many would disagree, my
personal opinion is that machine architecture is extremely important and 
high level languages only partially hide it.   Frankly, the only reason
Intel is still living is due to Big Blue's blind support of it.
	
				-Matt