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From: kevin@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Benchmarks (was: Re: A2620)
Message-ID: <24.G02v736Ia01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 17 Jun 89 19:42:32 GMT
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In article <25539@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> korpela@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (Erik Korpela) writes:
>In article <1622@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
>>In article <25428@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> korpela@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (Erik Korpela) writes:
>>
>>>Its not as if there is that much difference.
>>
>>< spluttering coffee all over desk >
>>HAHAHAHAHAHhahahahaHAHAHAHEEHEEHEEHEEHOHOHOHAWhawhawHAHAhehehe mmmf...
>>damn. Not much difference?! What are we talking about here?
>>
>
>We were talking about the performance of varios microprossors.  There is
>not much difference in the performance of systems operating with intel
>and motorola processors with the same processor speed and the same
>operating system.
>
>There is a difference in the processor languages, but neither is excetionally
>difficult to learn.

I HATE religeous discussions but.....

  I have done a fair amount of assembly on Intel and Moto processors.  I
believe that the 68000 is much easier to program due to the general purpose
address and data registers.  On the 8086 based architectures, specific
registers are used by specific instructions and this is a pain in the *SS.
The combination of general register usage and widely applicable and powerful
addressing schemes make the 680x0 family a big win.

If you are refering to the grande picture where the 680x0 and 80x86 outperfom
their 8 bit predecessors, then yes in that kind of scheme of things, it
just doesn't matter.  My Mom doesn't care if her computer has an 8 or 16 bit
processor.  Nor does she care whether it uses a segmented architecture or
not.  But then again Mom doesn't program in assembly either ;-)

>
>Thats what I was talking about.  
>
>
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Architecture, editors, OS's all are religeous issues.... no right answers...
Hard to convince those who are religeous not to be eh?  Better give up now.

Kevin
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