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From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68020 benchmarks?? (disbelieve Intel)
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Date: Tue, 28-May-85 11:54:40 EDT
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Phil Ngai writes:
>The 80286 does *not* need faster memory devices than the 68000. What the
>80286 does do is use the (same cost) memory devices more efficiently than
>the 68000...
>It's only unfair in the same sense that being
>smarter is unfair. You wouldn't give more credit to someone who starts
>a fire by rubbing two sticks together than someone who uses a match just
>because he works harder, would you?

Um, you can't light a fire with a match in a 80*86.  You see, the match is
in one segment, and the firewood is in another...

Merlyn Leroy
Segmented memory is a fractured idea.