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In article <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> jtr@oakhill.UUCP (Jim Reinhart) writes:
>Gargage.  What exactly qualifies as "outstanding" and what do you know about
>the price/performance curve of 68xxx machines to make this assertion?  

A four- or five-fold performance increase at roughly the same price.

The 68040 is about as close as it can get (oh, some more of the instructions
can be sped up, and it can be made superscalar [although I am not convinced
of this, nor even that a superscalar 68k chip would be that advantageous on
current code], and, more likely, the clock rate can be bumped up, but all of
these aren't going to happen soon, nor are they going to be *cheap*).

Meanwhile, an R4000 machine, based on everything I've seen and heard, should
run for about $10k or so (monochrome, I'm sure) and should be quite speedy.

But you're right:  we don't know what motorola is going to do in the
immediate future. Want to tell us, or are you just trying to defend your
company on generic grounds?

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