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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:28:03 GMT
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- In article <BzoF8z.1MM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
- >From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
- >clock doublers.
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- Lemme guess? You heard it here. Well, wrong.
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- Nuff said. Motorola does not make *any* clock doubled
- chips. The 68040 is faster than the '486 at the same clockspeed
- because it's *faster*--it executes a lot more instructions at the
- 1 cycle/per rate than the i486.
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