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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recommendations needed about A2500/30 as research workstation
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Date: 1 Mar 90 01:19:49 GMT
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In article <2017@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM> stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure) writes:
>
>I can't give you any concrete numbers here, however the '030 and 386 should
>be comperable.

The 68020 and 80386 are comparable. Actually, the 80386 wins out slightly,
by perhaps 10 to 20 percent. The 68030 is twice as fast as the 68020, so
obviously it beats the 80386 hands down.

The 80486 is in a totally different category. At 15 Mips, it certainly would
beat the 68030 down, except for the fact that it is not ready for shipment
yet. We have all seen manufacturers actually shipping them out, however
that mere fact does not make it ready for shipment. Motorola is likely
to come out with a bug free 20 Mips 68040 before Intel irons out its last
bugs.

So where does that leave your 68000 Amiga? Well, it has about the same horse
power as an IBM AT running at the a slower clock speed. It does not have the
memory management features of the 80286, but then it has other architectural
advantages to compensate.

Valentin
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