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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
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Subject: Re: PP '040 (was Re: 040 wishlist
Keywords: 040, 3000, Data Compression, _MORE_TOYS_
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.201914.16753@agora.uucp>
Date: 8 Oct 90 20:19:14 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.031416.26937@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
:In article <1990Oct8.003352.8462@isis.cs.du.edu> chanson@isis.UUCP (Chris Hanson) writes:
:>Running. At 25mhz. (None of that
:>this-is-a-neat-plastic-mock-up-of-what-it-will-look-like.) It is a real
:>screamer, I saw it a few days before the show running the 3DPro raytracer.
:
:What else does it run at this point? :-)

	It ran pretty much everything I saw thrown at it. Mostly benchmarks
and things like mandelbrot generators. It looked very nice to me, although I
forgot to ask if there was any way to disable the hardware compression for
filesystem data. (I'm not real sure that the extra storage is worth the
possiblity of finding 'incompatibilities' with existing file systems.) The
benchmarks I saw run tended to show about twice the speed of a 25MHz 68030
design, with promises of much faster times when a real, production 68040
is used.

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