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Re: New Press Release!

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From: Karl Thomas
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:59
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Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com> writes:

>Steve Koren wrote:

>> someone else brings this up again in 2 or 3 days after this, and again 2
>> or 3 days after that.  Just watch.  In a few days someone will post "but
>> the 68060/50 is faster than a P133!" and it'll start all over again.	The 68060/50 IS faster on the Amiga than the P75 is on an IBM clone.
>-- 
>             - lars@infohwy.com    Amiga 4000/040/25

The '060 is not faster in either floating point or integer than a p75.  
It's about the same speed per Mhz as a Pentium.  One badly written PC 
program (LightWave) is not a valid benchmark.  The '060 speeds came 
straight from Motorola.
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From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: New Press Release!
Date: 26 Mar 1996 09:59:04 -0700
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