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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: WolfToTheMoon on July 14, 2012, 04:43:08 PM

Title: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: WolfToTheMoon on July 14, 2012, 04:43:08 PM

Are there any benchmarks of PA RISC CPUs? In the hypothetical case of C= surviving past 94', how would a PA RISC based Amiga fare against Pentium powered PCs and PPC Macs...

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: Iggy on July 14, 2012, 05:11:51 PM

There's a pretty wide variation depending on model.

http://www.openpa.net/bench.html

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: WolfToTheMoon on July 15, 2012, 09:00:55 AM

It seems that PA 7150 was quite faster than both Pentium and PPC chips of the era running on similar clock speed.

And to think that C= negotiated a pretty nice contract with HP enabling them to design their own PA RISC chips... seems like a very good deal and sucg a shame it never happend.

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: kolla on July 15, 2012, 09:54:49 AM

But it would hardly been running AmigaOS.

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: WolfToTheMoon on July 15, 2012, 10:02:59 AM

Quote from: kolla;700188

But it would hardly been running AmigaOS.

Probably not at first.

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: psxphill on July 15, 2012, 11:59:45 AM

Quote from: WolfToTheMoon;700190

Probably not at first.

If commodore had been successful enough with making a games machine using PA-RISC, then there would not be a big enough reason to risk the investment required to make it a viable computer.
 
All the major innovation at commodore stopped in 1987, everything after that was evolutionary and not revolutionary. They had clever people doing clever things, but nothing that was ultimately worth spending the R&D budget on.

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: yakumo9275 on July 16, 2012, 03:58:50 AM

I had a HP 9000 C360, which used the PA8500.. it was a DOG. power hungry beast. a true unix desktop workstastion.. ugh

Title: Re: [what ifs]PA RISC performance
Post by: NorthWay on July 16, 2012, 04:24:19 PM

When I went to university (1990 - oh man, I'm getting ooold) we had HP workstations, the first batch of 50MHz(?) ones. Net boot and net swap - amazing what you could get done with only 16M ram: emacs, shells, compiler, debugger, Framemaker.

BTW, they had some fantastic keyboards (but they took some getting used to).