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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: CBM Discusses Future Amigas
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.161901.26603@enea.se>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:19:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.015149.23801@mel.dit.csiro.au>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green) writes:
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- - 68060 ? What ever happened to the 68050 ????
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- Here is one explanation I've heard, it may be right:
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- It was cancelled due to political reasons. People have always
- compared Motorola and Intel processors, and they have had one
- digit in common most of the time on processors of similar power.
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- 80186 - 68010
- 80286 - 68020
- 80386 - 68030
- 80486 - 68040
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- The comparable processors has come out not so far from each other
- (in time), but it seems like Motorola will have it's processor ready
- much later than the Intel 80586/P5. It's then better to call it a
- 68060, they think. It may also be much more powerful than the P5.
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- I beleive they always work on at least two processor designs in
- parallell, since it takes a long time to complete a processor.
- Maybe the 68050 design went into a dead end and it was cancelled, and
- the 68060 stayed with it's name.
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