Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:45980 comp.sys.ibm.pc:40182 comp.sys.mac:44529 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 68040 vs 80246 (Was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!) Message-ID: <1923@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 18 Dec 89 15:43:42 GMT References: <14960@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <18213@netnews.upenn.edu> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 28 Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) In article <18213@netnews.upenn.edu> meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) writes: | Why not include the 80486. From what I here, the 68040 is plenty | faster. I don't remember the specifics - as a matter of fact I don't | think the specs are out but word is it's faster. I think it's early to say what the performance, cost, or reliability of the 040 are. For that matter I don't think we really know what the 486 will be, other than a lot faster next year (supposedly the 50MHz version will ship in 1990). Certainly the 486 seems a lot more developed in terms of available machines which use it. Does the 040 have the FPU built in? I'm told the memory manager is there, but I have heard nothing reliable on the 040. And the leaked performance figures have all been at 33 or 40MHz, so they are not only possibly inaccurate, but need to be scaled somehow, too. I doubt that either chip will push the other off the market, and I would bet that the 486 will sell a lot more units because of the demand for fast DOS machines. This will bring down the cost of manufacture, although I wouldn't bet on either Intel or Motorola dropping prices a lot. Note I haven't said one was better than the other... -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon