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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <6360@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 00:29:28 GMT
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In article <3944@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes:
>In article <6857@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>Actually, the 68040 is faster than the current SPARCS used in the Sun
>4/330 and 4/370(both 17 MIPS) and the 68040 is reported to do 20 MIPS.
>Plus the fact it has an on board FPU...
>-Dino Khoe

	Unqualified statements such as yours are meaningless.  Which,
	exactly, 68040 system are you referring to?  Are you talking compute,
	FP, I/O, multitasking performance?  What application is the
	'040 beating the Sparc on?  Aside from hype, that is ;-)
	"Reported to", at least to date, is what Motorola says the '040
	will do running dhrystone (with some questionable, IMHO, string
	optimizations).  I am not saying that the '040 isn't everything
	it is "reported" to be, just that one should not run around
	quoting markethype until the beast is seen and quantified by
	running standard benchmarks (eg SPECmarks) on a real system.

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					Rick Spanbauer
					State U of NY/Stony Brook