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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
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- Subject: Re: Processors
- Date: 24 Mar 96 01:19:27 +0500
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- WD> Porter Woodward <porter_woodward@internet.kronos.com> wrote:
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- >> 68000 = 8088
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- WD> No it isn't! My Atari 1040STf runs circles around 8088's!
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- I have to agree... A 6800=8088 maybe, but even then I'd put my money
- on the 6800!
-
- Just to throw in some anecdotal evidence, in the late 80's the pc
- crowd would pack up their tables and go home rather than be sited
- next to a table with a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 running OS9 Level Two
- on it at the computer shows. This machine, with a 68B09 cpu running
- at 1.79 mhz, could, would, and did stomp all over any similarly
- functioning program running on the 8088 machines.
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- BTW, I still have one, which with optimizations to the opsys (OS9 L2)
- to make use of the extended instruction set and pipelined operations
- of the Hitachi 63C09EP dropin replacement cpu, is now nearly twice as
- fast as that pc kicker was in '87.
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- Cheers
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