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- From: jmpor@dynam.adsp.sub.org (Jean-Marc Porchet)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CISC and RISC
- Message-ID: <rOy8s*Y71@dynam.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:34:51 GMT
- References: <Bz8FD1.Dxt@ns1.nodak.edu> <Bz98Mw.7AK@fc.hp.com>
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- In article <Bz98Mw.7AK@fc.hp.com>, Steve Koren writes:
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- > Anyway, there are popular RISC chips today which are slower than 68040s,
- > and for all I know, there is some CISC chip out there faster than a fast
- > DEC Alpha or HP-PA chip. (The 586 and 68060 should come close to if not
- > surpass today's lower end Alpha and PA-RISC machines. Already a 68040
- > comes within about 4X of an HP 720 for floating point performance).
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- He, The HP 720 is about for times faster than the 040 for floting point
- performance ( 17 MFLOPS versus least than 4 MFLOPS).
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