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- pilot@primenet.com wrote:
- : The 50 mhz 060 has been clocked at around 80 mips, which is not quite as fast
- : as the P90. The 060's are executing 2 instructions per clock cycle as opposed
- : to the higher clock and 1 inst. with the P90. As an employee of Motorola I
- : would caution anybody with regard to the availability as well as replacements
- : of 060 processors and consider that Motorola is only manufacturing a limited
- : quantity for certain customers. There might be a 66 mhz. 060 at a later date
- : but the design limitation (superscalar) will keep it from going any higher.
- : Motorola wants to can the 060 and get on with the PowerPC.
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- I've seen announcements that Motorola is planning to continue to 60XXX
- series mainly targeted at imbedded controllers. The PowerPC was to be
- pushed into the Personal Computer market.
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- The imbedded controller market is a big one. I spent many "happy" years
- developing code under VXWorks for Motorola VME bus based controllers.
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