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jornmoe@fredrik.atari.no (Joern Moe) writes:

>These days the atari and amiga people are arguing which computer have 
>the fastest cpu (Falcon 030 versus A1200). The 68030 have better performance 
>than a 68020 when placed in an equal arcitecture. Additionaly the A1200 runs
>at 14.4 Mhz, wheras the F030 runs at 16Mhz (i realy think its 16.01xxxMhz)
>giving it a extra 10% over the A1200. Summing it all up, my bet is that
>this is a dead race!

Shouldn't that be 16Mhz - 25% ?

Also the Falcon doesn't have the custom graphics chips that the 1200 has,
so its going to be slower still. Remember the ST 68000 was faster than the
the 68000 used in the Amiga - yet most Amiga games ran faster than their ST
counterparts - because everything had to be done by the CPU in the ST.

I can't see much changing - musicians will go for the Falcon, the general 
public will go the 1200. In Europe its the games that sell machines, and 
with its better graphics specifications, Atari marketing and the well known
Amiga name, the 1200 will wipe the floor with the Falcon (when/if it becomes
available).