[comp.sys.amiga.advocacy] 040 vs blitter

dkoski@cs.arizona.edu (David A. Koski) (05/17/91)

melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> N + N is in the A3000 at this moment.  The blitter(==030) + 030.  The
> NeXT currently has 3N mips.

What about the dsp?  this is 60% the speed of the 040.  BTW, did you know that
one of the channel processors does the same thing as the blitter?  One of
them is for memory to memory copying.  Is this another N?

NeXT = 3N + .6 * N + N = 5.8 N?

David Koski