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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a1994
- From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
- Subject: Re: 68060
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:15:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <17592@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Giancarlo Castrataro writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <BxsIHo.9ED@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- > Posted: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:46:3
- >
- > Org. : Indiana University
- >
- > Let's get one thing clear here:
- > A 25mhz 68040 wipes the floors with a 25mhz 486, and can compete even with
- > 486/33s (is somewhat faster). I'm not sure, but I think the 68040 is
- > internally 50mhz. Also, I'd expect the floating point for the 68060 to be
- > good (considering Motorola has always had superior FP). Let's not forget
- > that if IBM had waited a few months to make their first PC, that they
- > would be using Motorola chips, not Intel (the crap inside).
- > -Giancarlo
-
- Actually, the problem was that Motorola (like CBM) didn't know how to Play
- The Game. When IBM asked for a CPU, they said "here's ours. It's really
- good." Intel said "Let's discuss this..." and when the doors of the
- smoke-filled room opened, IBM agreed to use ALL Intel chips (including their
- ageing 8-bit 8080 peripherals), and IBM owned 30% of Intel stock.
-
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