Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Computer Architecture question -- Daye Haynie Message-ID: <48625@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 7 May 91 23:40:33 GMT References: Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 26 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >Can you just drop a 68040 into any computer and expect it to be as >fast as a computer designed around the 68040? If you are comparing the A3000 to the 040 NeXT, you can expect better performance. I haven't met an engineer yet that thought that the NeXT's architecture was efficient or fast. The A3000's CPU slot was designed with the 040 in mind (among other things). >Now, can you just drop >an 88K processor in a computer that is based on the 68K and expect it >to work at all? No. Can you expect it in a NeXT either? No. It still takes a total recompile of the software either way. You can't expect the NeXT OS to be ported to the 88K in minutes, either, unless they don't plan to have it take any advantage of the CPU's architecture. >-Mike Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic