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- From: mjp3783@vaxb.isc.rit.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 23:13:07 GMT
- Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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- In article <4ealme$8fi@hades.datashopper.dk>, mberg@datashopper.dk (Michael Berg) writes:
- >In a message of 25 Jan 96 Stephan Schaem wrote to :
- >
- > SS> A 133mhz pentium is near 2 time slower then a 133mhz 604.
- >
- >If the 604 is a RISC processor, then I am sure glad I don't have a 604 in
- >my machine. What a drag!
- >
- >(For the slower readers -- RISC means Reduced Instruction Set, which in
- >turn means the processor has to execute many more instructions than a CISC
- >architecture to achieve the same thing. I don't recall the typical
- >RISC/CISC factor, but it's certainly more than 2).
-
- Actually, 68020<-->SPARC is about a factor of 2. Since SPARCs execute their
- instructions more than 2x faster than 68020's do, there is a big speed
- increase.
-
- > __
- >__/// Michael Berg
- >\\X/ mberg@datashopper.dk
- >
- >... Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
- >
-