Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!keele!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!elmar
From: elmar@lut.ac.uk (Mohammad A. Rahin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari cpu evolution
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.140008.18134@lut.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:00:08 GMT
References: <12229@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Reply-To: elmar@hpc.UUCP (Mohammad A. Rahin)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Lines: 70

Keywords: Motorola 68040

In article <12229@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kiki@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu writes:
>[someone speculates about evolution of Atari TT models with Motorola 68040 cpu]
>
>I guess it would be safe to assume that Atari is considering the '040 cpu for
>their next generation along the TT product line.  But the microprocessor spec-
>trum has shifted from the dominance of the 80x86 and 68000 families from Intel

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>-------------------------[start of article]------------------------------------
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>>From: neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz)
>Subject: PgC 7600 (was Re: Second-generation RISC)
>Organization: CEC Karlsruhe
>
>I'm typing what I've read in a local computer magazine here in Germany.
>The magazine isn't exactly known for overwhelming accuracy, so beware.
>
>Summary: I'm underwhelmed.
>
>Done by small British company called PgC, Ltd. (Yawn). Funded by Clive
>Sinclair (Oha !). RISC machine with a couple of onboard systems to make cheap
>machine implementation possible. The components:
>
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>
>Name 	When 	Price	Technology	MIPS
>PgC7600	1/91	400 $	Bipolar		200
>PgC7610	2/92	 40 $	CMOS		 80
>PgC7620	1/93	100 $	Bipolar		250
>PgC7700	2/93	400 $	CMOS	       1000
>PgC7710	4/93	200 $	Bipolar	       2000
>
>If you ask me: Too little, too late, no serious performance, no software.
>Forget it.
>
>			Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, CEC Karlsruhe
>
>------------------------------[end of article]---------------------------------
>
>If the PgC series has the capability of adaptable microcode and CISC emulation,
>then it would merit consideration by Atari as an alternative to the Motorola
>68000 line.  At the very least, it would offer Atari a little leverage against

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>The British press probably has reported on the PgC chips more extensively and
>I wonder if anyone there could make corrections, additions and their perspect-
>ive on the preceding information?
>
>Thanks,
>Jack


See Byte latest (March 1991) issue. Dick Pountain wrote a very informative
article on this chip (PgC).

Cheers.

Rahin
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