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#MIPS & other benchmarks

    06-Dec-92 00:36:33
Fm: Timothy Shaw 70046,10
To: Marlene Zenker/SYSOP 76701,250
You have brought up a good point Steve. "…but what platform isn't faster if you keep throwing money and hardware at it?". I think the answer to this question is the Amiga. The Windows environment on the PC supports whatever high powered video card you throw at it providing it has a driver. Since most of the new high powered video cards were designed with Windows in mind, they all have Windows drivers. This translates to a transparent increase in video performance with all my Windows based programs. I could dump more money into an Amiga high powered video card, but it certainly isn't worth it for the 3 applications that support the card. Most of my software would not speed up due to my increased hardware. Matter of fact, the Workbench would be just as slow (and if emulated by the high powered video board slower) as it was before I bought the card. So to answer your question Steve, the Amiga the platform with the highest rate of diminishing returns when one throws money and hardware at it. Tim