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From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT upgrades
Summary: The 68030 and 68040 are obsolete because ...
Keywords: 88000
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.010109.396@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Feb 91 01:01:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.041933.3958@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Feb7.213305.26568@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <16037@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder)
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The 68030 and 68040 are obsolete because:
1.  At the same clock rate, even the 68040 is less than half as fast as
    the 88000.
2.  Motorola has only two REAL 680x0 customers left: Apple and Motorola.  NeXT
    might pick up some slack, but not more than 2-3% in the foreseeable future.
3.  Motorola has already announced the 88110, twice as fast as the 88000, with
    the CAMMU built in (not on a seprate chip).
4.  Motorola has publicly boasted that 88110 will be operating at 200 Mhz by
    the end of 1992.  They might not make it, but... I'd rather have a 200
    MIPS single-chip computer than a 15-MIPS one.
5.  Right now, 88xxx's are more expensive than 68xxx's, but that won't last 
    
    forever.
6.  Motorola has several REAL customers for 88xxx: Data General, Tektronix,
    Sequent, Opus, and, of course, Motorola.

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