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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 23:54:51 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: PPC Accelerators
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4gdw@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 19 Feb 96 Swiftshadow wrote to All:
-
- > Since the emulation is said to be as fast as a 040@25MHz, there is :
- > little point in adding another processor. Adding a 060 would make it
- > very expensive, without adding THAT much speed.
-
- S> I couldn't agree with you more. When the 68K emulation was first
- S> released by Apple it was clocked at a speed of a 25MHz 040. Given that
-
- ...Except that, in reality, it's more like the performance of a
- 40 Mhz 030, given the base model of a 66 Mhz PPC 601. (Yes, we
- have used and compared it over here.) Which is fine, considering it's
- an emulation. With (say) a 100 Mhz 603e, I think one may expect about
- 25 Mhz 040 performance (at most).
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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