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- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: NEW MACHINES
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.100927.3681@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:09:27 GMT
- References: <2b092b0b.8cde21.d@BEIZ.mediatex.ch>
- Sender: torbenm@freke.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (064230062: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:
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- >Talking about chips: Is the ARM 600 comparable with the ARM 250?
-
- No. ARM250 is an ARM2, a VIDC, an IOC and a MEMC1a on one chip. In the
- new A30x0 and A40x0 machines the ARM250 and memory is clocked at 12
- MHz, where earlier ARM2 based machines used 8MHz. This makes the new
- A30x0 about 1.5-2 times faster than an old A3000, depending on screen
- mode. The ARM600 is best comparable with an ARM3, but has an on-chip
- MEMC, which is much more powerful than MEMC1a. It allows smaller pages
- and more memory and a very advanced protection/tagging schema. ARM600
- also has a write buffer, which allows it to continue without waiting
- for stores to memory to finish.
-
- >Will there be a successor of the ARM 250? (For example ARM 350).
-
- The only ones who know this are not telling. I don't expect anything
- in the near future.
-
- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
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