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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Message-ID: <4422@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 19:43:50 GMT
References: <5527@ur-cc.UUCP> <4251@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <4251@vaxwaller.UUCP> richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
>I new IBM system cost breakdown [sic]:
>
>$1200		80386 20 MHz Mylex motherboard(AMI Bios) with 64K 80ns ram cache
>$500		4 Megs 80ns Ram on the motherboard
>$400		80387 20 MHz co-processor
>...
>The computing power is about 5 times faster than an AMIGA
>not including the co-processor.  This system runs at about 5600 drystones.
>The advantage of the AMIGA system is in its NTSC video and internal sound
>capabilities, but this system has the processing power.

	Faster than WHICH Amiga??  Certainly an 80386 with coprocessor
is faster than a stock 68000 Amiga!  But I doubt it is "5 times faster"
than an Amiga with 68030/68882 and 4 meg 32-bit RAM, especially since
that Amiga system benchmarks faster than 5600 dhrystones.

                                                        Dan

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