Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!decwrl!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: 040 add-ins (was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art) Message-ID: <1991Apr3.070650.25901@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 3 Apr 91 07:06:50 GMT References: <20267@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Apr3.040256.27402@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 33 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >The 040 isn't being shipped in machines by anyone except NeXT and >maybe HP. The 040s have been available to developers for SO long >that everyone has their boards done, they are just waiting for >040s to put in them! I'd say you'll see it for the Amiga as soon >as you see it for the Mac. Just as a data point, last week saw the debut of Radius' Rocket 040 board for the Mac II... So the 040 boards have arrived (at least for the Mac). >And, as to 15 mips not being fast enough, that's why >Motorola does things called R&D which allow them to come out with >new and faster chips! What a concept! There was the 68000, 010, >020, 030, now the 040, and there'll likely be an 050 as well. And >how about a 50MHz 040! A 50MHz 040 is still at least a year away I would venture. Such a CPU would still only rate about 25 Specmarks, which is one third of the performance available NOW in HP's Snake workstation. If I were a 68K customer, and looking to build a high-end machine, I'd have already decided to go to one of the RISC chips. Really, there's only Apple, Commodore and Atari who haven't shifted already. And the long-term emphasis coming out of Motorola these days finally seems to have shifted behind their 88K series (at the expense of the 68K). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Where can a nation lie when it hides its organic minds in a cellar dark and grim? They must be ... very dim.