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- From: kluebke@mi.uni-koeln.de (Shep)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:23:45 GMT
- Organization: Back Room Boys
- Message-ID: <kluebke.2.823173825@mi.uni-koeln.de>
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- >Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- >Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com> wrote:
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- >> that is a "68K standin" may possibly be able to be faster than the
- >> fastest 060 and surely cheaper. It won't be a year before PPC cards
-
- >You have a good point. I dunno; I suppose I should believe that the 68K
- >emulator for the PPC will be faster than an 060, but I still have
- >trouble believing it. Faster than an 040, I will believe easily.
- > - steve
- 68k emulation on the PPC *is* (not "will be") about as fast as an 040/25
- (on the Apple). So this will be the same on the Amiga PPC (since it will
- have the same processors as Apple has today).
- Only very fast PPC's (150+Mhz) will be closer to the 060 range.
-
- Shep
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- Mathematical Institute
- University of Cologne
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