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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 19:40:16 +0100
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- worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings) writes:
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- >Note the "e". "e" versions of PPC processors are faster, MHz for MHz, than the
- >plain numbered versions. Don't know how or why...
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- You are right. My mistake that I overlooked the "e".
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- >advertise their SPEC ratings. So if one compares these sorts of tests, then
- >that will give a pretty good comparison of the processors' number-crunching
- >(which seems to be most of the work they do).
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- I disasgree. Processor speeds can be (and often are) quite different from
- SPEC results. SPEC focuses on a set of average applications, but there are
- many situations that aren't represented by this set.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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