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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:53:22 GMT
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- Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >What counts now is today, when Intel is making 486's that blow the
- >doors off of '040's, because they can clock double, and are pushing
- >the pace, whereas Motorola seems to be twiddling their thumbs. When
- >is that 40mhz '040 coming out? How long overdue are we here? Intel
- >is coming out with the 486dx2/80. mhz for mhz, an '040 will beat a
- >486, but Intel can push the 486 higher and higher, while Motorola
- >may never be able to clock double the '040, regardless of whether
- >they want to or not. (This is has to do with the '040's internal
- >architecture, and has nothing to do with Motorola's chip designing
- >prowess, assuming they ever get off their buts and finish doing
- >something with the 680x0 line - Should I upgrade the 2ci to the
- >PowerPC or should I wait for a Radius Rocket/060)
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- From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
- clock doublers.
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- Todd Walk
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