Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor!king
From: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New stuff
Keywords: 680x0's and computers in general
Message-ID: <1619@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 3 Apr 89 12:50:34 GMT
References: <2017.AA2017@panchax> <846@savax.UUCP>
Reply-To: king@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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In article <846@savax.UUCP> thompson@savax.UUCP (thompson mark) writes:
>Somewhat impressive, but why settle for less. The Intel 80860 (N-10) will
>absolutely blow the doors off the Weitek part and just about anything else.
>It is a 64 bit RISC processor with an internal FPU capable of 80 MFLOPS or
>120 MOPS (millions of operations per second). [...]
>Initial release will be in the 33MHz and 40MHz speeds but 50MHz is in
>development. The parts are currently sampling for $750. [...]

Excuse me if this seems like a foolish question, but how do they get
120 MOPS with a (maximum) 50MHz clock speed? I could understand an
instruction executed on both the rising and falling edges of the clock, but
that is still less than 120 MOPS. 

>Looks like Intel has finally designed something that is worth the silicon
>its on.

If this thing is made of silicon, I am inclined to agree. Sure it's not
GaAs ? After all, 120MOPS implies 8.33 nS propogation; barely enough for a
few simple TTL gates.

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