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Article #28295Re: Atari Transputers ? & A British ST/Amiga Rival ?
From: sansom
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1987 19:51
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1987 19:51
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In article <1138@water.waterloo.edu> ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey) writes:
>In article <607@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP (Root) writes:
>>> > One article I have seen quotes the performance of the slower T414
>>> > processor (20 mhz) as 10 MIPS !
>>
>> RISC mips, unfortunately.
>
>You seem to imply that RISC mips are not quite as good as some other kind
>of MIPS. Are RISC mips slower somehow? Are more instructions needed to
>produce the same results? Explain, please.
RISC is an acronym for "Reduced Instruction Set Computer". This implies
that the computer will take more instructions to accomplish a task which may
take only one instruction on a computer with an "enhanced" instruction set
(such as the 68000). This may be true, but the RISC computer may still be
faster since the amount of time each instruction takes is less (or _much_
less) than the amount of time an instruction takes on an enhaced instruction
set computer.
Does that help any?
-Rich
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