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From: asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: ARM3 spec changes
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Date: 29 May 91 07:52:07 GMT
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In article <10615@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal) writes:

>I suspect this is true.  I bought a 540 and was surprised that it didn't
>run a particular program at quite the speed that Les Currell was claiming
>for his home-made Arm 3 upgrade.  I suspect the 540's as sold aren't
>running at maximum speed; 

?? This is strange. Tests we have run on 440/1's with Aleph one ARM 3 cards
and 540's, show the 540 to be faster. This is mainly due to the faster
memory speed in the 540. I havn't seen Les Currell's claims, but I doubt a
400 machine could match a 500 machine (though I'm open to proof). I don't
know what the official word is, but I wouldn't buy an ARM 3 upgrade spec'd
at over 26Mhz now, as VLSI don't sell them.

These tests were done with a very complexed draw file, and are nothing to do
with Acorn's official testing of machines.

>Graham

Andy