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- From: floydg@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Floyd Goodrich)
- Subject: Re: 020 vs 030
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.143907.13839@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
- References: <AHANSFOR.92Aug12160520@hongkong.wpi.edu> <1992Aug12.234441.11526@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Aug13.012227.29329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:39:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.012227.29329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jjsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan J. Smith) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.234441.11526@oakhill.sps.mot.com> floydg@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Floyd Goodrich) writes:
- >>
- >>Correct. The 68030 supports burst mode (for 32-bit accesses) and has a
- >>256kbyte data cache. The cache really boosts performance on loops of <256kb.
- >^^^^^^^^^^
- >it has a 256Kbyte data cache????? woah, hold on, unless Im way out in the blue yonder I was under the impression it was a great deal smaller!
- >(just checking, don't have a data book handy)... 256Kbytes, seems a tad on the large side though.
- >
-
- You are right. I caught that after sending it. Both the data and instruction
- caches on the 68030 and EC030 are 256 byte not 256K byte. What's a few orders
- of magnitude among friends? ;-)
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- Floyd Goodrich
- floydg@oakhill.sps.mot.com
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