Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sgi!shinobu!odin!maddog!pkr From: pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 68040 (was: Sanity Check, please) Message-ID: <3521@odin.SGI.COM> Date: 2 Feb 90 19:17:07 GMT References: <277@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <15@usinset.inset.com> <7302@pdn.paradyne.com> <3426@odin.SGI.COM> <38264@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 21 In article <38264@apple.Apple.COM> baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum) writes: >[] >>In article <3426@odin.SGI.COM> pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) writes: >> >>And the doubling of the RAM banks from 2 to 4 eats a lot of real estate >>(remember, the 68040 has a 64-bit bus) and gives a few NuBus problems. > >Try again. My brand, spanking new 68040 manual shows 32 pins for the data >bus. Try again a lot. Ooops oops oops -- wrong Motorola part. Just been hanging arounds MIPs chips lately -- how quickly we forget. Duh ..... ------Me and my dyslexic keyboard---------------------------------------------- Phil Ronzone Manager Secure UNIX pkr@sgi.COM {decwrl,sun}!sgi!pkr Silicon Graphics, Inc. "I never vote, it only encourages 'em ..." -----In honor of Minas, no spell checker was run on this posting---------------