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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.212127.11589@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:21:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.211216.27421@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Yamanari (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: >From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
- >: >clock doublers.
- >:
- >: Lemme guess? You heard it here. Well, wrong.
- >:
- >: Nuff said. Motorola does not make *any* clock doubled
- >: chips. The 68040 is faster than the '486 at the same clockspeed
- >: because it's *faster*--it executes a lot more instructions at the
- >: 1 cycle/per rate than the i486.
- >:
- >
- >Then how come Motorola has boasted "50MHz internal operation" in an '040
- >advertisement?
-
-
- Probably they were comparing a 40mhz 68040 to a 50mhz i486.
-
- In other words, cite the ad and magazine, and I;ll look
- into it. If you want the truth, though, simply call Motorola
- and have them send you the specs on the '040. Motorola does not
- and never has offered clock-doubled CPU's.
-
- >--
- >+-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+
- >| JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
- >| Drummers do it... | Burlington, MA USA | in my book of memories. |
- >| ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
- >+-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+
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