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In article <2270@gitpyr.UUCP> rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (RODNEY RICKS) writes:
>In the September 18, 1986 issue of Electronic Design magazine, there is an
>article on page 27 describing the new microprocessor from Motorola, the 68030.
>The chip is said to run software 20% to 30% faster than the 68020.  The chip
>is supposed to be available in mid-1987, along with an improved math
>coprocessor, the 68882, which will be up to 25% faster than the 68881.
>

I hope the '82 is more like twice as fast as the 68881.

>The bus data transfer rate of the 68030 is 40 Mbytes/sec.

Think about this.  That's a memory access time of 25 nanoseconds, more than
4 times as fast as the memory we use in our PC's, Macs, Amigas, and Apples.

>Now, when will I be able to connect one to my Amiga?

Probably soon.  But it won't be noticably faster than a CSA 68020.
An editorial on the subject of the 68040 (yes, 40) in a recent issue of
a small PC magazine commented that these chips are so fast that a fair
amount of high-speed cache memory is absolutely essential to take full
advantage of them.  And that means minicomputer pricing, not micros.
Unless one of you hot-shot chip designers out there can put together a
1 MB DRAM with 25 ns access which will sell for less than $100 apiece :->

			Stephen Walton, speaking for myself

Dudley Moore: You must be a nut case!
Peter Cook:  They said that about Galileo!  They said that about Einstein!
Moore:  Yeah, well they've said it about a lot of nut cases, too.
					-from the movie "Bedazzled"