🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <id.RO0W.F1F@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <BzMEIJ.Anz@pix.com> stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne) writes:
[...someone says the cy486DLC + cy487 is about as fast is an i486DX...]
>> I don't think this is the case (but I would love to be wrong...).  I beleve
>> the #clocks each insn takes is more like the 386, then the i486.
>
>If NeXTstep does busyloops using instruction timing, I don't want it no
>matter WHAT it looks like.

I had removed all the stuff about NeXTstep from the message.  I was just 
disputing the speed claim.  However it turns out that I am wrong.  Which is
nice (in this case).

I really doubt thare any hard timing loops, more likely to be a MMU diffrence.
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