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Article #287Amiga <--> PC diplomacy
From: Peter Busser
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 22:04
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 22:04
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In article <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU writes: > That's quite funny, since PC mag did a review on how the 040-25 matches > up to a DX2 486-50, the 486 blew the doors off the 040. Why has the 040 doors? And who cares about a 486 blowing off the doors of a 040? Is that significant? Does it say anything about the work one can do with such a beast? > And look at your specs bud! I don't have specs. > According to BYTE mag, the 040-25 runs with 2.4 MFLOPS, and then > the 486-33 does 2.6 MFLOPS w/o a weitek 4167. > Then look at your MIPS, etc... I don't have MIPS. BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless numbers do to anyone? Greetings, Peter Busser --- I don't do .sigs
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy Message-ID: <711583453snx@global.hacktic.nl> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 22:04:13 GMT References: <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Distribution: world Organization: What organization??? Lines: 26