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- I was reading in here about Motorola erroneously saying some of its 040
- chips run at 80MHz when their true speed is 40MHz and ditto 33/66 MHz
- systems etc.
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- Why is this different from clock doubling as in the 486DX/2 CPU?
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- I understand that most 68040s have two clock signals a PCLK and a BCLK,
- the BCLK runs at 1/2 the speed of the PCLK.
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- And the BCLK is used for all bus timing, whereas the PCLK is used for
- internal processor logic timing.
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- Now as far as I can tell the only difference between this and the DX/2,
- is that the DX/2 only has one clock and uses a clock 2x multiplier to
- derive the internal processor speed. Why do the two clocks on the '040
- _not_ have the same effect as clock doubling?
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- Can the two run out of sync for instance?
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- Bye...
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