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From: perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 2 Mar 90 18:20:42 GMT
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In article <22556@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) writes:
>In article <5527@ur-cc.UUCP> jea@cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
>>Several folk here claim that an equivalently loaded IBM-clone
>>system with 40 meg HD, 3 Megs ram, '386 and VGA graphics with
>>monitor costs $600-800 less than than the A2500/30 at $3600

>This may be true, it may not, but what OS you going to run on the
>thing?  MS-DOS? -- there goes the useability of your 3Megs of
>memory...  OS/2? -- there goes the price difference.. :)

Also... OS/2? there goes your 3 megs... Better make that 4..

A while back on the graphics newsgroup, someone was saying that he was
getting about the same speed out of a 20 MHz '386 as he did with a 7mHz 
68000 based amiga running the same ray-trace program.  Presumably the
data was big enough to choke under the MSDOS memory juggling  on the '386.

(note that this was just the computations, no help from blitter, etc)

-don perley


perley@trub.crd.ge.com