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Re: '040 vs. SPARC (was: Next computer...)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 21:57
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In article <9755@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
>	2) The 68030 improves the speeds of many of the new addressing modes.
>I think some of them become useful.

And the 68040 improves them even more... except that it improves the speed
of the *simple* stuff by a much larger margin.  Nobody is going to optimize
for the 030 and ignore the 040 at this point... and the list of fast modes
on the 040 is the original 68000 mode list minus indexed.  Not one of the
new-on-020 modes is included; they all take the slow path.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: '040 vs. SPARC (was: Next computer...)
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.215756.17438@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8905@portia.Stanford.EDU> <160@zds-ux.UUCP> <38415@apple.Apple.COM> <2101@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <19233@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <604@bbxsda.UUCP> <1990Feb12.202532.17784@utzoo.uucp> <1061@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <9755@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 21:57:56 GMT