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In article <1988Mar7.163720.22573@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> lharris@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Leonard Harris) writes:
>
>What kind of REAL speed increase is there?  You can't drive any of the
>other chips in the atari at 16MHz so is this just the 68000 being 
>speeded up - like sticking a v20 in an ibm?
>Is performance increase gained=$200 ?
>/Leonard

MegaByte Computers (Webster TX) just told me yesterday that in general, you 
can expect 30 to 85% speedup. if the inner loop of a process is primarily
calculations and not hits to the OS (like I/O, etc.) you get the higher
numbers. they also say you can switch on-the-fly between 8 Mhz (normal) and
16 Mhz, even during a program execution! no reboot needed.

they are planning a board for the mega as well, though expected dates were
not known. they plan to also have additional sockets for memory on that
board, and perhaps a floating point coprocessor. if all this happens,
the mega will turn into a rather formidable machine ($200 delta on the
mega is probably worth the performance increase for all megas. you be the
judge for ST).

-bill