Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.UUCP (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 68030 and 68040 specs
Message-ID: <1432@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 10:55:35 GMT
References: <30785R38@PSUVM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 17
Summary: 68040 rumors....

In article <30785R38@PSUVM>, R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin) writes:
> I bet alot of you out there want to know about the new 68030 and 68040s,
> so here is what I have dug up:
 (Line eater at work)
> As for the 68040, well I have no 'official' word, except that it is a
> 'BIG' jump from the '30.  We're talking maybe 30MHz or more possibly!
> That would get some time intensive programs done fast (like RAY TRACING!).
>        ________                         |-R38@PSUVM.PSU.EDU---------------|
>     / /  ____  \                        | MARC RIFKIN                     |
 
In PC-Week several weeks ago Spencer Katt reported some interesting 
rumors about work going on at Apple with prototypes of the '040. According
to this source, the chip will include full on-chip emulation of the Intel
'286 instruction set as one sub-mode. He reckons that given timely  
marketing of a MAC-II (MAC-III?) based on this chip, with PC-DOS 
capability on-chip, Apple could really kick some big blue a.. I'm 
inclined to agree!