Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Computer Architecture question Message-ID: <3310.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 8 May 91 07:35:58 GMT References: Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 17 Quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > Can you just drop a 68040 into any computer and expect it to be as > fast as a computer designed around the 68040? Now, can you just drop No, but try dropping a 68040 into a _well-designed_ computer and it may well do better than a computer that was _poorly-designed_ around the 68040. > an 88K processor in a computer that is based on the 68K and expect it Who knows, who cares. Use the thing as a co-processor, like they use those Inmos chips. > -Mike -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***