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From: jshekhel@feds19.prime.com (Jerry Shekhel )
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Subject: Re: Atari TT 030 Launched!
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Date: 7 Jun 90 19:33:12 GMT
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In article <10373@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> (Daniel S. Riley) writes:
>
>That wasn't mindless ravings.  Seriously, that 1/3 number confuses me--it
>should be lots higher.  Going from a 16 bit to 32 bit machine and doubling
>the clock speed (8 MHz to 16 MHz) should give you at least a factor of 4,
>and then some because the '30 takes fewer clocks to do some things.
>

Not really, becase at 16 MHz, an uncached system is no longer zero-wait,
unless you use 60ns DRAMs, which I doubt these machines will use.  Am I
wrong about this?  I'd like to know for sure.

-- JJS