ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) (03/23/90)
[] Personal Workstation magazine for April printed a comparison of some low cost multi-tasking workstations. The comparison included the NeXT, HP 345, DG AViiON, Apollo 2500, and the Club American Hawk 486. OK, the Amiga was not in the comparison, but in a text box labelled "Workstation on a Budget" is a short mention of the Amiga 2000 with a 32MHz GVP accellerator. The observations that were made were basically accurate. Some quotes: "... Intuition is an acceptable graphical user interface, but I found little to get excited about..." [ comments that only .info files are shown on the workbench ] "... After a little use I thought that it was a good introduction to a multi-tasking operating system."; "With the GVP board the Amiga is at least competitive with a similarly configured Macintosh..."; "At 6837 Dhrystones, the Amiga edged out the NeXT and Apollo 2500, but the real difference was in floating point." [ Amiga LINPACK: .230 SP MFLOPS, .171 DP MFLOPS; Mac: .172 SP MFLOPS, .146 DP MFLOPS ] Conclusion: "While it does well against the Mac, an Amiga with the [GVP card] retails for over $5000, which places it in the range of a 25MHz 386. If number-crunching is your main objective, go with the 386."