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- From: torh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Tor Houghton)
- Subject: Re: Arm mippage.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.131656.26182@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:16:56 GMT
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- John O'Malley (J.Herbert1@lut.ac.uk) wrote:
- :
- : Just a quicky from memory. I remember that in apples evalutaion of the ARM 610,
- : for there new newton handheld thingy, they ran a 20mhz ARM 600 and it apparently
- : ran at an equivilant mippage to a 25mhz 486 or a 40 mhz 68040, noting that the
- : fastest Mac uses a 33 mhz 68040. The other good thing about the ARM, is that no
- : other chip can match it for low power consumption at these speeds.
- : Read this months byte for information on Amulet an aschyncrounous implementation
- : of the ARM architechture which will, if it works run very, very fast indeed.
- :
- : No flames please this was all from memory.
- :
-
- One must remember that the Apple Machintosh does a whole lot of things
- in software (i.e. the Toolbox), so even a Mac Quadra will look slower on
- most things (such as DTP) than an Archimedes with an ARM3 processor.
-
- Tor Houghton.
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