Arm mippage.

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3 total messages Started by John O'Malley Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:07

#881

Author: John O'Malley
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:07

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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.

			Jim.

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Re: Arm mippage.

#905

Author: Tor Houghton
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:16

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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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Re: Arm mippage.

#911

Author: Conrad Hughes
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:47

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torh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Tor Houghton) writes:

>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.
The Arc does nearly everything in software too - what are you trying
to say?  That the ARM is faster than the CPU in most Macintoshes?
Remember too that a lot of the ARM stuff is running from ROM which
is clocked at ~half the rate of its RAM.. ;)  I don't know how much
Mac stuff is on ROM.

Conrad, who probably doesn't know what he's talking about, but I
missed Tor's point anyway..
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