Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!evgabb From: evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 Summary: Motorola has a good track record Message-ID: <1201@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 90 03:08:53 GMT References: <13479@baldrick.udel.EDU> <9884@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <6360@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati Lines: 28 In article <6360@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff) writes: > In article <3944@nmtsun.nmt.edu> dksnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Dr. Mosh) writes: > >In article <6857@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes: > >Actually, the 68040 is faster than the current SPARCS used in the Sun > >4/330 and 4/370(both 17 MIPS) and the 68040 is reported to do 20 MIPS. > > Unqualified statements such as yours are meaningless. Which, > '040 beating the Sparc on? Aside from hype, that is ;-) > "Reported to", at least to date, is what Motorola says the '040 I've used systems based on the entire Motorola family quite extensively. After each of their major announcements I was fortunate to use some of earliest systems using the newest chips: 25MHZ '020 - Apollo DN4000 33MHZ '030 - Apollo DN4500, HP370 50MHZ '030 - HP375 One thing I can say about Motorola is that their preliminry quoted numbers are very close to the fact. The 50MHZ '030 is a screamer ! -- ________ _________ _______ ________ / _______| | ____ \ | ___ \ / _______| Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb) | |______ | | \ \ | | \ | | / Technical Development Engineer \_______ \ | | | | | |___/ / | | Structural Dynamics Research Corp. ______| | | |____/ / | ____ \ | \_______ #include |________/ |________/ |_| |_| \________|