Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!ptsfa!well!swalton From: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030 Message-ID: <1837@well.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 00:30:06 EDT Article-I.D.: well.1837 Posted: Fri Sep 26 00:30:06 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 02:43:56 EDT References: <2270@gitpyr.UUCP> Reply-To: swalton@well.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) Distribution: net Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA Lines: 31 Keywords: new motorola chips mmu fast Xref: watmath net.micro.68k:1871 net.micro.amiga:4936 net.micro.atari16:2156 net.micro.mac:7951 Summary: It ain't goin' in PC's In article <2270@gitpyr.UUCP> rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (RODNEY RICKS) writes: >In the September 18, 1986 issue of Electronic Design magazine, there is an >article on page 27 describing the new microprocessor from Motorola, the 68030. >The chip is said to run software 20% to 30% faster than the 68020. The chip >is supposed to be available in mid-1987, along with an improved math >coprocessor, the 68882, which will be up to 25% faster than the 68881. > I hope the '82 is more like twice as fast as the 68881. >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. >Now, when will I be able to connect one to my Amiga? Probably soon. But it won't be noticably faster than a CSA 68020. An editorial on the subject of the 68040 (yes, 40) in a recent issue of a small PC magazine commented that these chips are so fast that a fair amount of high-speed cache memory is absolutely essential to take full advantage of them. And that means minicomputer pricing, not micros. Unless one of you hot-shot chip designers out there can put together a 1 MB DRAM with 25 ns access which will sell for less than $100 apiece :-> Stephen Walton, speaking for myself Dudley Moore: You must be a nut case! Peter Cook: They said that about Galileo! They said that about Einstein! Moore: Yeah, well they've said it about a lot of nut cases, too. -from the movie "Bedazzled"