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From: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: 68040
Message-ID: <1990Feb10.233412.15585@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
Date: 10 Feb 90 23:34:12 GMT
Sender: news@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se (Evald Nyhetsson)
Reply-To: d6maca@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Carlberg)
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Hi!

I have read a short article about the new 68040 from Motorola. It should
be a real beast. The average instruction takes 3.4 cycles on the 68030 and
1.3 cycles on the 68040. It looks like they are doing everything at the same
time in this chip. This is a very big step in performance, it's 2.5 times
as fast as the '030. I want to know more about the 68040, has anybody heard
anything more?

flame on

The article says that the 68040 is 25% faster than the 80486 at the same
clockspeed.

flame off

- Martin Carlberg
- Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden