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From: eric@oakhill.UUCP (Eric Quintana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68040
Message-ID: <3104@rorschach.oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 90 00:41:21 GMT
References: <10216@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: eric@rorschach.UUCP (Eric Quintana)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <10216@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
>That's true.  And until Motorola's shipping them in volume, rather than
>sampling, you probably won't be able to buy a 68040 system at all.

OK, OK.  We're working as fast as we can!  :-)

I wonder how much faster we could get the 68040 out the door if I had
a A3000 to work on.  Perhaps we can make a deal.  ;-)

Seriously, I agree that it is tough to judge the speed of a part
until you have it in a system.  However, the performance
numbers that Motorola tosses about are based on results obtained on
a custom built system in our 'lab'.  It has zero wait-state ram plus
a myriad of hardware bells and whistles that no one but a chip designer
cares about (eg. buserr capability on every cycle).  Don't expect to
see this system ever leave our lab, so your mileage may vary (but not
by much, we hope).

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Systems Engineering) "The Crew That Never Rests"

Eric Quintana                    ...!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!eric