Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ncar!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 80386 Message-ID: <8808142310.AA09641@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 14 Aug 88 23:10:25 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 23 :> Keywords: Which is faster? : :Well, even if it's running a brain-dead OS like MS-DOS, a '386 machine is a :real 32 bit machine. Real 32 bit machines do have an annoying habit of going :faster than 16 or 16/32 bit machines that run at 1/2 the clock speed. You :can expand an Amiga (at least an A2000) to compete with this; it's not going :to be on the average college kid budget, however. I may not *like* a 386, but it is *fast*. Motorola would love us comparing a 68000 to a 386 ... gives the 68020 and 68030 a definate advantage, no? HOWEVER, as far as arbitrary bimmer operations go, the Amiga's Bimmer is still quite a bit faster than an 80386 for non-trivial operations. A 808386 running @ 16MHz WITH a cache could probably copy bitmaps faster, but that's about it. ... So why don't we start comparing a Cray to the Amiga now? -Matt