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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Next Amiga
Message-ID: <1734@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 03:12:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 03:12:46 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 19:42:05 EDT
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In article <6151@amdahl.UUCP> kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>
>Or how about using a MIPS R2000 chip (12.5 MHz flavor), and is available
>running 4.x BSD ... I dunno if SVR2 is shipping yet.  This is a REAL
>part, and is available *now*.  I'm not sure if the R2010 FPU chip is
>available, or still in "sampling".

In all fairness, it seems that the MIPS chip requires more than a simple
"chip" to obtain it's nominal performace level.  The Clipper seems to
provide a much higher level of integration, including cache and MMU in a
basic 3 chip set.

Fast 68020's and vaporous 68030's are a good bit slower, but at least have
the benefit of executing the same flavor of object code...

Is there any good overview of the current R2000 chip available as opposed
to research papers on it's predecessors?
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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