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- From: "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org>
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- Subject: Re: Speed: 68040 vs. 68060
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 14:12:13 GMT
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- mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) wrote:
- Michael M. Rye (1726@topcity.mn.org) wrote:
- MR: Matt,
- MR: Sorry to inform you, but your value of max 250 MIPs is wrong.
- MR: I'm looking at the Motorola product brief at this very moment.
- MR: The superscalar '060 at 50MHz, running 2 instructions per cycle,
- MR: is capable of 100 MIPs (do the math). Not flaming you or anything.
- MR: I just wanted to point that out.
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- MH>OK. I did get mine from an official Motorola press release that I
- MH>have had sitting on my hard disk since the 060 was first released.
- MH>Not sure what you mean by "do the math", though. I don't see anything
- MH>in your post that would allow me to calculate a value of 100MIPS from
- MH>other data.
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- MH>Matt Harrell
- --
- Matt,
- Simple. Maximum: 2 instructions per cycle * 50 MHz = 100 MIPs.
- The chip will not achieve this all the time, because it is not possible
- for the chip to execute 2 instructions per cycle 100% of the time.
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