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- John de Bruin (j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz) wrote:
- : Why is this different from clock doubling as in the 486DX/2 CPU?
- : And the BCLK is used for all bus timing, whereas the PCLK is used for
- : internal processor logic timing.
- : 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?
-
- On a 486, the machine commands are executed with (internally generated)
- PCLK, on the 68040 only very few parts of the processor (eg some parts
- of the arithmetic unit) are using PCLK, the rest is running at BCLK.
-
- So, the 040 doesn't use the higher clock as much as the 486 does.
- This has nothing to do with efficiency, btw.
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