Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Byte review. 386 v '020 Message-ID: <2508@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 22:23:22 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2508 Posted: Wed Sep 9 22:23:22 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 00:37:14 EDT References: <1376@imagen.UUCP> <116@faccs.UUCP> <509@sbcs.UUCP> <1179@pdn.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 30 In article <1179@pdn.UUCP> alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes: |In article <509@sbcs.UUCP> root@sbcs.UUCP writes: |>As for showing up in new industry iron, I thought Sun went with their |>Sparc RISC chip (with promises to upgrade the existing Sun-3 line to |>68030 "sometime in the future"), ... |>thus just jumping ahead to Supercomputing workstations rather than |>bothering about the next incremental speed change in 680?0. | |Ahem. 68020 * 4 is an "incremental" speed change? The 68030 at 30 Mhz |more than matches the SPARC/29000/MIPS crowd in actual performance, ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ My figures are: 68020 @ 25MHz = 4 MIPS (Sun 3/200) SPARC = 10 MIPS (Sun 4) I believe you are saying: 68030 @ 30MHz = 16 MIPS ??? I can only assume you literally have a 68031 chip NOW!? No fair jumping generations in a comparison. Otherwise I would like you to show documentation that the 68030 is a 16 MIP CPU. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett