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From: djh@dragon.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: 50 MHz MC68040 capabilities?
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Date: 20 Feb 90 20:03:32 GMT
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It seems to me that the state of Amiga speed-ups is at the primitive level that AT's
were when the first 12MHz boards came out. For a long time there was big confusion over
clock speed vs. wait states vs. caching strategies, etc. I will put the question to
all listening out there : Where are the boards with Cache? Where are the REAL specs?
There's plenty of memory management variations on high-speed projects, (page-mode,
interleaving, write-back cache, write-thru cache) but I don't see this information
an any 3rd-party advertising. Until the Amiga community can agree on a suite of
benchmarks, ads are all we have to go on. And I don't want to hear that the 68030's
on-chip cache is sufficient, it's not. We're paying big bucks for speedup boards
now that could buy us 386's with more efficient design. Anybody care to comment?

-Dallas "Down with Wait States" Hodgson