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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030
Message-ID: <148600148@uiucuxc>
Date: Sat, 27-Sep-86 17:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 27 17:18:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Sep 27 16:18:00 1986


>>The bus data transfer rate of the 68030 is 40 Mbytes/sec.
>
>Think about this.  That's a memory access time of 25 nanoseconds, more than
>4 times as fast as the memory we use in our PC's, Macs, Amigas, and Apples.

    thinking about this, i suspect that 40MB/sec is achieved with 32-bit
transfers, one every 100 nanoseconds.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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