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- From: rahamans@cs.man.ac.uk (Shafiq Rahaman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 14:26:46 GMT
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- References: <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no> <judas.0hjs@tomtec.abg.sub.org> <4e7rhi$4fo@maureen.teleport.com>
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- In article <4e7rhi$4fo@maureen.teleport.com>, sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan
- Schaem) writes:
- |> Th.Huber (judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org) wrote:
- |> : In article <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no> kenneth@norconnect.no
- |> (Kenneth C. Nilsen) writes:
- |> : >
- |> : >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?
-
- Somehow I doubt that a 70Mhz PPC exists. The highest clock I've heard of
- 333Mhz.
- There is a physical design limit as to how fast a clock can go so eventually we
- will reach it.
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-
- |>
- |> : If this speed gain is really possible, it`s possible to the Pentiums
- |> aswell.
- |>
- |> : The pentiums clock accellerates even more than that of the PPC. With the
- |> PPC and
- |> : the Pentium both beeing RISC without any great CISC commands, the PPC is
- |> about
- |> : to loose this race, if the PPC can`t get this new technics exclusively.
- |>
- |> A 133mhz pentium is near 2 time slower then a 133mhz 604. Now to equal PPC
- |> performance you would need at least a 266mhz pentium... (This from some
- |> past
- |> byte issue comparing the new macs with top of the line PC)
- |> The P6 is not showed to be a major leap forward at all ... so for the next
- |> few years (maybe forever) PPC will have the edge mhz for mhz against any
- |> x86
- |> incarnation. And it seem the PPC evolve much fater then the intel line.
- |>
- |> The x86 must die... its overpriced junk.
- |>
- |> Stephan
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