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Re: Falcon030 competes with '486dx-33

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From: Marinos Yannikos
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:07
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cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) writes:
: [ad deleted] 
: Wasn't Atari's last memorable slogan, "Power without the price!"?  A
: '486sx-25 will _CRUSH_ a 68030-16, no matter what OS you put on it...
: 
Hmm... according to some PC magazines, a 486sx/25 is slower than a
386dx/33... So it can't be that much faster than a Falcon... 
(at most 2x as fast, depends on what you do of course)

:[...]

-MY
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From: nino@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Marinos Yannikos)
Subject: Re: Falcon030 competes with '486dx-33
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