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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
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:> 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