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- From: raist@rmece02.upr.clu.edu (Ricardo Hernandez | 802-36-4453)
- Subject: Re: 68060
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.223931.25805@rmece49.upr.clu.edu>
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- References: <1992Oct28.211235.27906@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Oct30.161050.7022@ichips.intel.com> <1992Nov3.035520.21338@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:39:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.035520.21338@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders) writes:
- |> In article <1992Oct30.161050.7022@ichips.intel.com> tjehl@sedona.intel.com writes:
- |> <
- |> <In article <1992Oct28.211235.27906@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, bevis@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Bevis) writes:
- |> <>
- |> <> Intel and Motorola engineers last week detailed the superscalar,
- |> <> pipelined architectures of the respective P5 and 68060 microprocessors
- |> <> at the annual Microprocessor Forum here.
- |> <>
- |> < For those of you who are really excited about future-ware, I'll attempt
- |> <to run down the foil set I have from the above mentioned conference with
- |> <respect to the '060. I will leave out some of the information which
- |> <wouldn't be of interest to people who aren't designing new systems.
- |> <
- |> <8) Summary
- |> <
- |> < 060-50 w/ new compiler ~3.5x 040-25 with existing compiler
- |> <
- |> < design targeted for 50/66 MHz, with 3.3 V operation
- |>
- |> Is the '060 as unimpressive as this sounds? A 50MHZ '060 being ~3.5x
- |> faster than a 25MHZ '040 makes it only ~1.75x faster than a 50MHZ '040. And
- |> that's with a new compiler. Rather disappointing. Motorola should have called
- |> it the '045 ;-)
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- BLEAGH! Sounds like the P5 will be much better!
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- |>
- |> - Kyle
- |>
- |> --
- |> +-"Remember, [MS]DOS is sort of a UNIX deviant already" - dmoscny@piglet.-----+
- |> | // Only /\ kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu cincinatti. |
- |> | \ // /--\MIGA kyle@nick.csh.rit.edu oh.us |
- |> | \X/ SQLdb - $40 rdbms Rochester Institute of Technology |
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