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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!dcs.ed.ac.uk!axl
  2. From: axl@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Long)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
  5. Message-ID: <C19AI2.E39@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 12:54:02 GMT
  7. References: <D2150035.o0d8gx@outpost.SF-Bay.org> <2B5B923E.17057@news.service.uci.edu> <C12HIu.193@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <23252@venera.isi.edu>
  8. Sender: cnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk (UseNet News Admin)
  9. Reply-To: axl@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Andrew Long)
  10. Organization: Edinburgh Uni
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  12.  
  13. In article <23252@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
  14. >Bear in mind also the FlashPort technology, which is currently having
  15. >about 70-80% native RISC code on ported 68K OBJECT code.  Their eventual
  16. >goal is 90%, which they believe will be achievable.
  17. >
  18. >70-80% native on the peppier PowerPCs is not bad at all...
  19.  
  20. Hmm, did I hear somebody muttering "Amdahl's Law"  in
  21. the background somewhere?
  22.  
  23. :-)
  24.  
  25.  
  26. Andy
  27.  
  28. PS Anyone like to comment on the likelihood of an LC II -> III
  29. upgrade path?
  30.