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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> <12502@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <f&1Gjg#h1@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 03:45:35 GMT

In article <f&1Gjg#h1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> I don't think you can just drop a 25MHz 040 board in a 16MHz A3000 and
> expect to get the same performance as a system that was designed to
> run at 25MHz.   Someone correct me if I'm wrong.  Like I have to ask.

OK, you're wrong. The only things in the 16 MHz motherboard that differ
from the 25 MHz motherboard are the clock setting and the 68030/68881. If
you run a 25 MHz 68040 card you can override the clock and you don't need
the 68030/68881.

> BTW, $3250 is the price to beat.

How about $500? As an applications platform, the Amiga 500 is pretty close,
since it's not tossing CPU speed away on VM. Really, a stock NeXT is about as
responsive as a Mac Classic, which the 500 has beat all hollow. Oh, sure, CPU
intensive stuff will be faster on the NeXT. What CPU-intensive stuff do you
get with the machine?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
