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The pentium MAY be better than an 060 at raw processing power. But at some time you have to put it into a real application. Even with a good motherboard design you still have to put a pentium onto an IBM-PC compatible motherboard, and the pentium still has to go through hoops with it's instruction set. The 68000 is better code than 8086, needing more instructions on the 8086 than the 68000. It might be quicker for a pentium to load a value into a reqister, but with the restricted number of registers you have to keep pushing and poping them off the stack. Windows is slower than AmigaOS. Always was always will be. NT is even more of a hog. Without sounding as if I am 'slagging' the PC (which I wish I could do without everyone else in the world having a go at me :-)). The only thing the PC is good for is software availability and being able to buy complete hardware solutions. If the Amiga had ever been sold the same way as the PC, and if IBM hadn't been the ones who made the PC (they had a good reputation then) we would all be using Amigas now. The Amiga in my view is better than the PC because it can do what I want at a lower cost, it is also undeniably technically better (well maybe up until the a3000, the a4000 was a pig). People don't buy the best they buy what they think is the best which is VERY different. If you don't know about something you tend to follow the ideas of others you think that do. What you tend to find is that all these people think the same and don't want everyone else to know they haven't a clue about computers. Amiga was sold to people that wanted a computer. PC was sold to people that wanted to use a computer. Anyway I am rambling, I cannot afford an 060 AAA machine anyway so maybe it's a good thing there aren't any about.