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Somthing else here… that MPG is on the same type of surface, under the same type of stress (getting from here to there at a particular speed with the same driver (you)). A 68040 under AmigaDOS has none of the horriffic restrictions on it that an 80486 has when slogging through Windows 3.1, for instance. So, although a 68040 is actually a considerably more powerful processor (factor of two or so) than a 486 to start with, when running an Amiga, a 68040 *effectively* outpowers a 486 under windows by *huge* margins far exceeding what you would expect from "MIPS" ratings. At least cars, and MPG, compete for those ratings on an even field – they're all gonna get driven nearly the same way by a particular buyer, so MPG relationships of one car to one another have a chance of holding the same pattern. Not so 486's/040's/and RISC CPU's over different operating systems. The comparisons are so difficult as to be irrelevant. In my opinion, of course. :^) –Ben …via AutoPilot