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- From: jjsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jonathan J. Smith)
- Subject: Re: 020 vs 030
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.170755.25053@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug12.234441.11526@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Aug13.012227.29329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Aug13.143907.13839@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 17:07:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.143907.13839@oakhill.sps.mot.com> floydg@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Floyd Goodrich) writes:
- >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? ;-)
- >
- >
- >---
- >Floyd Goodrich
- >floydg@oakhill.sps.mot.com
-
-
- heh okay, I feel better now, you'd started to scare me cause I was almsot positive
- I knew it was smaller, but as ever more prone to think I screwed up, than someone else.
-
- *grin*
- hey its only one letter right? a simple extra k here and there heh.
- Joanthan Smith
-