rms@gorf.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada) (03/27/90)
Today I received in the mail a flyer offering the send me a 276 page
Solutions Guide "with detailed descriptions of 752 remarkable product
for everything from product design to project managment."
It was from Apple Computer, Inc., and it for the Macintosh.
I also received the latest Personal Workstation today (the one
describing a high end Amiga, but winding up recommending a '386). It
also mentions a '486 box, with 4MB of memory, 152MB disk and VGA for
$4995. It did over 28,000 dhrystones. (The Amiga with the 32Mhz
68030 GVP board did 6,837 and was configured for over $5,000.)
'nuff said
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Roger M. Shimada {amdahl|hpda}!bungia!gorf!rms rms@gorf.mn.orgseanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) (03/29/90)
In-Reply-To: message from rms@gorf.UUCP Well, ya' the guy said that if all you care about was number crunching, go with the i386 box. But, would you have all the features you have with an Amiga? Nope. The really important thing is the fact that the GVP equipped Amiga kicked the NeXT's, the Apollo 2500's, and the Mac ]['s BUTT on raw mathematical performance. What's the most impressive here is that's still a 32-bit CPU talking through a 16-bit bus, where the other three machines are full 32-bit...in the eyes of most computer "purists", the GVP boards are kludges...but they're kludges that work, obviously. Sean //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// UUCP: ...!crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc | ARPA: !crash!pnet01!pro-party!seanc@nosc.mil | " I drank what? " INET: seanc@pro-party.cts.com | -Socrates | RealWorld: Sean Cunningham | Voice: (512) 994-1602 | | Call C.B.A.U.G. BBS (512) 883-8351 w/SkyPix | B^) VISION GRAPHICS B^) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\