Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!gilgalad From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: <1990Dec8.050442.27795@engin.umich.edu> Date: 8 Dec 90 05:04:42 GMT References: <1990Dec5.061558.21893@engin.umich.edu> <3725@rwthinf.UUCP> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 17 In article <3725@rwthinf.UUCP> helmutn@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de writes: >Hi, >you can only get the advantages of the 040 with an adequate RAM-Design >and if you can use the new Cache-Modes (delayed write back etc.) correctly. >OS 1.3 and 2.0 can not correctly use these new Modes, so the advantage will only >be seen under a new OS like Unix and if you add additional RAM to the 040-Board. >Simply adding the 040 to the A3000 only raises the FPU-Performance. Nonsense. Almost all instructions have been optimized to execute in fewer cycles. Granted a good 32 bit memory design helps considerably, but you will DEFINITELY see a good performance increase by just adding an 040. See ya, Ralph Ralph Seguin gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu 536 South Forest Apt. #915 gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (313) 662-4805