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From: wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Pierce Explains RISC. was new mac rumors
Message-ID: <9795@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 27 Feb 89 09:53:31 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology
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>>     The speed of a mircoprocessor is somewhat proportional to the number
>>of instructions it has to implement. For instance the 6502 can do every 
 >>instruction in one clock cycle, while the 68000 can take up to 70.
  > 
> Many 6502 instructions are >1 cycle long, as a glance at any 6502 programming
 > manual will quickly confirm.  The true speed of any processor is

    Ooops, sorry. I meant many 6502 instructions take ~ 1 cycle. I obviously
didn't expect a multiply to run in one cycle.
Pierce
 > 
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