From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Re: x86 ~= 680x0 ?? (How do they compare?)
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2545500@jeff-lab@queensu.ca (Peter Pundy) writes:

>Even better than that...  how does a 68000-based Amiga 2000 perform in 
>daily tasks compared to my 68030-based IIci.

>Answer, except in a very few cases, I get my butt kicked by the Amiga.

A similar reason is why people at work, used to seeing SCO unix running
on a 486, are suprised when they see my Sun-3 at home running faster w/a 16MHz
68020/68881.  The Sun was designed from the ground up for UNIX, the PC
wasn't.

This is why you need a gargantuan processor to run Windows.  The basic
design of the box is all wrong. (Would've been better if MS had put most
of Windows on a plug-in ROM card from day one. (priced at $24.95 or
so...) People woulda loved it.

Apple had the right idea, just stumbled a bit in the execution.

-Pete

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