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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: A NeXT Article(beware) (was: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 12 Jun 91 19:03:15 GMT
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In article <mx5H+2&t@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>The IIfx is already a toy :-).  Actually, read comp.sys.next.  It
>seems that the new NeXT due out early next year will use the new 88K
>and run at around 50 to 60 mips(the current machine is 12-15 mips).
>To put this in perspective, that's around 10 times faster than the
>68030.  It looks like NeXT will have it's graphic's coprocessor and
>CPU on one chip.  Anyone still unconvinced that NeXT isn't on the
>move!?!

  Mike, don't compare CISC MIPS to RISC MIPS. Let's say RISC processor
X is rated at 10x the MIPS of CISC processor Y, but a divide instruction 
takes 20 instructions on X and one instruction on Y. It seems to me
that division is twice as slow on X. Show me the SpecMarks.
BTW, isn't Motorola already wrking on the next generation 88k's ?

>-Mike
> 


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