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- From: gowen@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu
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- Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.171132.1@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 23:11:32 GMT
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- In article <AHANSFOR.92Sep14132853@wpi.wpi.edu>, ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu (Andrew L. Hansford) writes:
- >>>>>> On 14 Sep 92 10:41:06 GMT, jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen) said:
- >
- > jpelkone> In article <1992Sep14.180411.90091@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- >>
- >
- >> I have only 1 thing to say re: Amiga + RISC.
- >>
- >> Please, please, please, please, please, please, ALPHA!
- >> (although MC88x00 is the more obvious option).
- >
- > I would rather see C= focus on getting an 060 board ASAP. Not 1.5
- > years after everyone else does. The modular design should expedite
- > matters.
- >
- > -- Andrew Hansford
- > ahansfor@wpi.wpi.edu
-
- I second the above idea. The '060 should greatly increase the processing
- power over '040-based machines. The clear choice here is to stay with the
- '0x0-series CPUs since other CPUs will require recompiled software all the
- way around (WorkBench, KickStart, applications, etc.).
-
- I have heard rumors that the i586 runs five times faster than the i486 at
- the same clock rate. If this is true (along with the rumors about the
- '060), then the '060 will have at least similar gains over the '040. That
- is, we can expect a 25-MHz '060 to deliver 100 MIPs. Personally, I find
- this hard to believe, which makes me wonder about the i586 rumors. However,
- even a 2-fold increase would deliver a 40-MIP Amiga, and we still get to
- keep Motorola's great CISC architecture.
-
- Lon
-