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- From: kenneth@norconnect.no (Kenneth C. Nilsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 11:58:15 +0100
- Organization: NorConnect Internet Services AS
- Message-ID: <1141.6593T1100T790@norconnect.no>
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- >> I heard some rumours about a 700MHz PowerPC. This has very little backing,
- >> but is it true or not? I know there have been difficulties to get more than
- >> 300MHz so this sounds not too probable. Anyone?
-
- >The current/near future top-of-the-line is the PPC 604@150 MHz.
- >The 300 MHz was foreseen for the 64-bit PPC 620, but the situation about this
- >beast is unclear since the projected performance gain is not enough these
- >days. Instead a design rework will be done, maybe they call it 630 or so.
- >Anyway the race for MHz sounds silly to me, since the memory can't keep pace
- >with it, except for large (and expensive) caches. 700 MHz is science fiction
- >I'd say.
-
- Yeah, you got a point. But wouldn't it be possible to write data parallell to
- memory, I mean, using double memory bus writes so that in principle you can
- write not 1 byte, but 2 bytes simultainously or even 4 bytes etc. (hope you
- get the picture) ?
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