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Article #20648Re: Query about miserable M68882 performance
From: Tim Beres
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 19:52
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 19:52
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In article <7829@pyr.gatech.EDU> mccalpin@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (John McCalpin) writes:
>The 68881/2 are not really any worse performance-wise than their main
>competition, the 80x87 family. Both families are very slow...
>...Maybe the co-processor for the 68040 will improve on
>this situation.
>
Nit time: It has been reported (4/3/89 EE Times, for one) that the '040
will have an on-chip FPU, as will the '486. The '486 will also go
with an on-chip 8K mixed instruction/data cache.
I just read these rumours in the trade rags.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!cadnetix.COM!cadnetix!beres From: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Query about miserable M68882 performance Message-ID: <7330@cadnetix.COM> Date: 4 Apr 89 19:52:59 GMT References: <2583@tank.uchicago.edu> <7829@pyr.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@cadnetix.COM Reply-To: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres) Organization: Cadnetix Corp., Boulder, CO Lines: 16