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- Subject: Re: The PowerAmiga..
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 20:50:48
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- cbrown%armltd.co.uk@INTERNET wrote :
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- >
- > In article <601.6676T37T2745@prometheus.hol.gr>,
- > Touliatos Panagiotis <Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr> wrote:
- >>On 09-Apr-96 20:21:04 Lars Nelson Wrote:
- >>
- >>>Obviously the CPU for the Power Amiga is 64 bit. The PhaseV accelerator
- >>>boards are completely 64-bit, and I'm making an assumption that the Power
- >>>Amiga will be also. That is of course unlike the stupid Pentiums using
- >>>64-bit CPU with 32-bit bus bottlenecks.
- >>you are wrong , pentiums are 32-bit cpu's with 64-bit data bus.
- >
- > He's also wrong about the PPC, unless the PowerAmiga uses a PPC 620
- > straight off (not likely I feel). The PPC 604 is a 32 bit CPU. There
- > aren't that many 64 bit CPUs around. The most prominent ones being
- > probably Aplha and MIPS R4x00. Pentiums and the P6, as you say, are 32
- > bit processors.
-
- Well, but anyway... i just recently saw a PowerPC 603 system... it is THAT
- fast... i do not think we REALLY need much more speed... and the PowerPC 604
- is MUCH FASTER than the 603... anyway if it is 32 or 64 Bit... i do not care
- ... :)
-
- Steffen Haeuser
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