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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 6 Feb 90 16:06:07 GMT
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In article <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
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>I know.  Steve's going to upgrade the NEXT to a 68040.
>Even then, the Sparc chip set is faster.

I have seen assertions in several places that the '040 is faster than
SPARC at equal clock rates.  Does anyone have 'real' knowledge about
this?

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--Steve
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