#No more Amiga Toasters?
13-Aug-95 19:02:32
Sb: #118929-#No more Amiga Toasters?
Fm: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
To: Chris Shepard 102076,276
"Maybe, however, I just received some benchmark tests from Jim Drew regarding
the Emplant Mac run by a 68060"
Have you ever noticed that Drew never provides core data? And that no
magazine review has ever equalled the results he claims?
Somehow Mr. Drew always seems to outperform the original equipment and now he
has a 68060 running as the "equivalent" of a PowerPC.
You might want to check Drew's claims very, very closely and see what he has
to say about FPU performance. The PowerPC blows just about everything on the
market away in FPU speeds – but I'll bet you don't find a word of that – or if
you do, that you couldn't duplicate it in your own tests.
"Don't forget that Jim D. will also be porting his Power PC version from the
Mac to the Amiga when Escom makes the RISC based Amiga next year"
Yeah. Sure. And Drew's PC board was so good that Apple was going to
distribute it. Remember that? And Drew was going to be making Amiga clones.
Remember that?
Believe whatever you want to, but Mr. Drew's claims are a little bit too much
for me to swallow.
Jerry