Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!linus!alliant!rosenkra
From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MORE on the 16Mhz board
Message-ID: <1372@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 88 09:25:53 GMT
References: <2331@vice.TEK.COM> <1988Mar7.163720.22573@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA
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Keywords: Due to popular demand...

In article <1988Mar7.163720.22573@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> lharris@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Leonard Harris) writes:
>
>What kind of REAL speed increase is there?  You can't drive any of the
>other chips in the atari at 16MHz so is this just the 68000 being 
>speeded up - like sticking a v20 in an ibm?
>Is performance increase gained=$200 ?
>/Leonard

MegaByte Computers (Webster TX) just told me yesterday that in general, you 
can expect 30 to 85% speedup. if the inner loop of a process is primarily
calculations and not hits to the OS (like I/O, etc.) you get the higher
numbers. they also say you can switch on-the-fly between 8 Mhz (normal) and
16 Mhz, even during a program execution! no reboot needed.

they are planning a board for the mega as well, though expected dates were
not known. they plan to also have additional sockets for memory on that
board, and perhaps a floating point coprocessor. if all this happens,
the mega will turn into a rather formidable machine ($200 delta on the
mega is probably worth the performance increase for all megas. you be the
judge for ST).

-bill