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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 07:56:43 GMT

In article <f-6G-*xf1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>In article <1991Apr3.040256.27402@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>You can buy an 040 Mac board for $3500 from Raduis.  In case you don't

	Is it shipping, or just advertised? There have been
advertisements for Amiga 040 accelerators in AmigaWorld for a
heck of a lot less than $3,500, and for machines that are already
32 bit, i.e. the A3000, the cost should be appr. $700
street-price.

>know, the NeXT costs $4995 retail.  The 17" monitor, DSP, software,
>105MB hard drive, 8MB RAM, 2.88MB floppy, and the software.  If you go
>to a university that sells NeXTs, you can buy everything for around
>$3250.  Yes, that's less than the Mac upgrade.
>
	Yes, you've mentioned that before. 8)


>We're all waiting for the 50MHz 040.  Intel is releasing the 50MHz 486
>soon.  I wouldn't hold my breath until the 050 is released.  RISC
>machines are about to stomp all over CISC machines.  Take the 57 mip
>HP Snake for $12,000 as an example.  Any company that is waiting for
>the 050 is going to go out of business.
>
	No one is waiting for the 050, but Motorola has made a
clear committment to their 680x0 line. If the current 040 is 15
mips then the 50MHz will be 30. And as top RISC machines stomping
CISC machines, YOU CAN'T COMPARE MIPS BETWEEN RISC AND CISC
CHIPS. The instructions on the RISC chip do less BY DEFINITION.
There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. The world is hardly
being run over by RISC chips, although they are becoming the
in-thing in workstations.

>-Mike


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.
