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From: joechung@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Joseph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Motorola vs Intel (who's faster?)
Keywords: Amiga runs at 3.5 MHZ?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 05:51:08 GMT
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Reply-To: joechung@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Joeseph Chung)
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A friend of mine said the other day that Motorola rates its CPU's twice as
fast.  So in effect, my Amiga's running at a little over 3.5 MHZ.

One of the reason he sights is that: Motorola & Intel are about the same
level in technology, and yet Motorola has come out with a 50MHZ chip already
while Intel is still around 33MHZ.  Therefore, the actual speed of the
Motorola chips are 1/2 what the manufacturer says.

No flames please.  I just want to know if what he said is true.  I'm a little
surprised the hear that my 68000 actually runs at 3.5 compared to an Intel.

-jc
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