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- From: mjl@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Maurice J. LeBrun)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A4000 vs 486
- Message-ID: <MJL.92Dec22021831@dino.ph.utexas.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:18:31 GMT
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- In-reply-to: ynecelc@sx.mont.nec.com's message of 16 Dec 92 21:04:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.210457.15396@sx.mont.nec.com> ynecelc@sx.mont.nec.com (Ellison Chan) writes:
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- So I don't believe a PC system costing under $2000 US can be 100MB/Sec.
- Anyone got some _real_ proof? Also, are you talking about the VESA
- standard or some proprietary setup?
-
- Well since I started this thread, I've been following it pretty closely. It
- started with my friend's claim that his localbus PC can get a theoretical
- 100Mbit/sec video memory to CPU bandwidth, and I was interested in knowing
- ^^^
- how the Amiga stacks up. There have been several responses; Dave Haynie said
- that the A3000 gets on the order of 50Mbit/sec. And an A4000 can get about
- 4X this. Then taking into account that the Amiga has a blitter, and lots of
- inexpensive or free animation software, means to me the Amiga still holds a
- good edge for animation, which was (indirectly) what I wanted to get at.
-
- The 100MB/sec figure that has been mentioned sort of just rose up out of the
- chaos :-). It's not correct, at least not for reasonably priced systems.
-
- --
- Maurice LeBrun mjl@dino.ph.utexas.edu
- Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
-
- Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait
- attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire.
- [menu of restaurant Antoine, New Orleans]
-