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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Processors other than 68000's (Re: Is 14.32MHz too fast for my expansion RAM?)
Message-ID: <6029@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 88 04:18:45 GMT
References: <2236.AA2236@heimat>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2236.AA2236@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>
>   Hmmmm this sounds like you should be able to obtain very similar results by
>   just upgrading to a MC68010. After all most internal commands of the 010
>   are roughly 1 to 2 times faster than a 68000 and apperars to be the only
                ^^^^^^^^^
>   benefit of this product. Hazey any comments?

Uhh, you may wanna refer to that handy dandy 68000 cheat sheet with the
cycle times. I seem to recall the biggest speedup was MUL or DIV going
from 73 to 55 cycles or something like that.


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard