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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <1988Oct23.002818.20634@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 88 00:28:18 GMT

In article <5024@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>Since the VAST majority of Suns sold to universities are Sun 3s (68020 based)
>and below (believe it or not, folks STILL use Sun 2s here and there), I don't
>think a 68030 based system, even NeXT's, which isn't an especially fast 68030
>system (they're running it's memory at about 1/2 the possible speed), will have
>no trouble competing with the installed 68020 systems...

Your statement is correct as it reads (they will not have no trouble, i.e.
they will have trouble), but that's probably not what you meant.  The 68030
is *not* orders of magnitude faster than the 68020, especially if you are
comparing fast 68020 systems with mediocre 68030 systems.  (Do remember that
you should probably normalize for memory access times, not raw clock rate,
when comparing implementations.)  It's not at all obvious to me that NeXT
is going to blow Sun away.
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