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- From: m93kma@sabik.tdb.uu.se (Kristofer Maad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Processors
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 12:31:09 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University
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- travis (envision@darwin.topend.com.au) wrote:
- : You must remember that Motorola considers the processor speed to be the bus
- : speed. The 040 actually runs at twice the bus speed.
-
- No, it doesn't. This has been said a thousand times on this and other
- newsgroups: The '040 uses a double internal clock _only_ for pipeline
- synchronization purposes. No instructions are performed in an odd
- number of 80MHz-cycles. The fastest instruction takes one
- 40MHz-cycle. On the 486, though, the processor is _really_ clock
- doubled, so some instructions take only one 66MHz-cycle to complete.
-
- If you don't believe me, why don't you ask the guys at comp.sys.m68k
- or whatever it's called...
-
- /Kristofer
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- Name: Kristofer Maad | "The satisfaction in making a 'crash-
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- 753 14 Uppsala | almost makes it worthwhile." /Kris
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- E-Mail: m93kma@student.tdb.uu.se | <http://www.update.uu.se/~kris/>
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