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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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Subject: Re: Performance stats for MC68040?
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Date: 12 Nov 89 17:28:30 GMT
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In article <23948@cup.portal.com> mslater@cup.portal.com (Michael Z Slater) writes:

-Moto has not yet formally introduced the 040, and has not given any performance
-data, other than to say it is more than 2x the 030 (and faster than the 486).

-It has two 4K caches, an on-chip FPU, and more pipelining...

Its going to be interesting to see if I can buy enough ram to hold the
trap exception frame.  :-)

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)