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John O'Malley (J.Herbert1@lut.ac.uk) wrote:
: 
: Just a quicky from memory. I remember that in apples evalutaion of the ARM 610,
: for there new newton handheld thingy, they ran a 20mhz ARM 600 and it apparently
: ran at an equivilant mippage to a 25mhz 486 or a 40 mhz 68040, noting that the
: fastest Mac uses a 33 mhz 68040. The other good thing about the ARM, is that no
: other chip can match it for low power consumption at these speeds.
: Read this months byte for information on Amulet an aschyncrounous implementation
: of the ARM architechture which will, if it works run very, very fast indeed.
: 
: No flames please this was all from memory.
: 

One must remember that the Apple Machintosh does a whole lot of things
in software (i.e. the Toolbox), so even a Mac Quadra will look slower on
most things (such as DTP) than an Archimedes with an ARM3 processor.

Tor Houghton.

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