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From: dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <3951@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 90 04:03:19 GMT
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In article <6360@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff) writes:

>	Unqualified statements such as yours are meaningless.  Which,
>	exactly, 68040 system are you referring to?  Are you talking compute,

Meaningless??  I think you are missing the point here...  The original 
question was whether to build an Amiga SPARC or 68040, based on pure
processing performance, the 68040 IS Faster...

>	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

And you don't think Motorola could meet their own "reported" performance
in the FINAL stages of release?  Have they ever NOT met their reported
figures??  

>	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.
>

I think you are the one caught in this "markethype" thing...  Do you actually
think that Motorola would make empty claims as to it's processor against a
SPARC?  Maybe it might not run exactly 20 MIPS, but I'm sure they would insist
that their processor be faster than the current SPARC's...  I don't even think
you know much about the 68040... if in fact it does run as "reported", it would
in most aspects beat out a current SPARC... So why don't you think about it
before you go knocking other's words...


>
>					Rick Spanbauer
>					State U of NY/Stony Brook

-Dino Khoe

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