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From: ned@ghostwheel.UUCP (Ned Nowotny)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.m68k,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <129@ghostwheel.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 22:37:17 GMT
References: <4746@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <2753@omepd>
Reply-To: ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny)
Organization: MCC Database Program, Austin, Texas
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In article <2753@omepd> hah@mipon3.UUCP (Hans Hansen) writes:
>There is a fair article in the Jan issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal of Software
>Tools:
>
>	"The 68030 How good is it"
>

"Fair" is a bit too kind.  For Dr. Dobbs Journal, the article was almost
content free.  Other than a general description of the separate instruction
and data caches on chip, the article had very little to say about the
processor.  Instead, a significant portion of the article was devoted to
the usual litany of benchmark inadequacies.  However, no benchmarks were
presented.  Since the article was on a new processor and not on the
trouble with benchmarks, the wasted column inches could have been better
used to describe other enhancements over the rest of the 680XX family.  In
particular, a detailed look at the on chip memory management functions and
how they differ from the facilities offered by the 68451 and the 68851 would
have been appreciated.

The most unfortunate part is that Tyler Sperry, the new managing (?) editor,
was responsible for this article.  Amazingly, a guest editorial replaced
his monthly editorial because he was too busy with this "lead" article.

I was developing a few doubts about DDJ before this, but now I am really
concerned.  Coupled with the recent changes at Byte, I'm afraid that the
future of the computer-related popular press is MacWorld and a bevy of clones.

Ackkkk!!!


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Ned Nowotny (ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP)