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From: hadeishi@husc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: The Motorola 68030
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Date: Sat, 27-Sep-86 18:33:06 EDT
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Summary: The 68030 is MUCH faster than that . . .

In article <2270@gitpyr.UUCP> Rodney Ricks writes:
>The chip is said to run software 20% to 30% faster than the 68020.

I believe I read a press release about the 68030 in which it was stated
that the 68030 was capable of 8 MIPS, approximately 8 times that of the
VAX 11/780, and 2 times that of the 80386.  This is at a clock rate
of 16-20 Mhz, I'm not sure which.  The 68020 is capable of about 1.5
MIPS at a clock rate of 14 Mhz.  This puts the 68030 at about 5 times
faster than the 68020 at the same clock rate.  Apparently the 68030
uses what is called "Harvard parallel architecture".  Now that Motorola
has released this chip, they have in *every category of chip* a far
superior chip than does Intel.  68030 > 80386, 68020 > 80286, 68010 and
68000 >> 80186, 8086, 68008 > 8088.  The 68000 series chips are in every case
more orthogonally designed, faster, more compatible with each other,
and easier to program.
				-Mitsu