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From: rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (RODNEY RICKS)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k,net.micro.amiga,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.mac
Subject: The Motorola 68030
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 20:30:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2270
Posted: Sat Sep 20 20:30:27 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Sep-86 22:30:05 EDT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.
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Keywords: new motorola chips mmu fast
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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.

Oh yeah, by the way, the chip will have a built-in, paged memory-management
unit (in case anybody cares :-)).  The MMU is a subset of the 68551 PMMU.

The chips have several other interesting features, which I will leave to the
article, so that I won't be accused of plagaurism (sp?).

The bus data transfer rate of the 68030 is 40 Mbytes/sec.

Hopefully, now we won't have to put up with the Intel fans (short
for fanatics? :-)) telling us that Intel has the best microprocessor.

Now, when will I be able to connect one to my Amiga?


Rodney Ricks,
   (Not officially respresenting...)    The 64 Store.  Atlanta, Georgia 30339

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