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In article <1992Apr10.091036.3083@whetstone.uucp> whetstone!johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) writes:
>My question is this: is the 88K really that fast?  Does Motorola really know  
>something about RISC that Sun doesn't?  How does Motorola get 75+ MIPS out of  
>their RISC when Sun is working pretty hard to squeeze 30 out of SPARC?  I'm not  
>a processor freak, so I don't really know about this stuff.  Can someone  
>enlighten me?
>

Do HP, IBM, DEC, and Intel know something that Sun doesn't know.
I think they do. The reason is that they also know what goes into
manufacturing the silicon. 

Sun Microsystems doesn't have a foundry.

This is important.  Even though SPARC foundries do their own
implementations, SPARC is a few years old in design.  Even though it is
scalable things have changed dramatically since the SPARC was introduced.

To finally anwer your question.  A 68040 competes very well with a SPARC
at the same speed.  I think don't doubt Motorola's claim for the speed
of the 88110 since the processors by IBM, DEC, and HP all have performance
in that range also.
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