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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:12:16 GMT
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- Yamanari (rsrodger@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
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- : >From what I HEARD (I don't know myself for sure) the '040 are all
- : >clock doublers.
- :
- : Lemme guess? You heard it here. Well, wrong.
- :
- : 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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- Then how come Motorola has boasted "50MHz internal operation" in an '040
- advertisement?
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