Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long)

[Dan Taylor]

>In the magazines "UNIX World", "UNIX Review", and "Personal Workstation" they
>rate several machines and include dhrystone figures.  It is intersting to note
>that all of their figures are consistant.  They rate most 386/25's (cached) at
>12,000/sec and 030/25 at 8000 (give or take 500/sec).  

Additional info on caching:  Motorola VME system, 25MHz '030, 256K Cache,
12,000 Dhrystones, (VME141, V.3).  I ran it; caches REALLY make a difference
on a multitasking machine.  Why else have the mini- and main-frame makers
been doing it?  To waste money?

BTW, when do we get some real SYSTEM throughput numbers (SPECmarks),
instead of just compiler/program-size dependent things like Dhrystones?

Dan Taylor