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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: X Windows on a <take your pick>
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Date: 20 Feb 90 18:26:11 GMT
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In article <9002182102.AA00112@apple.com> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>
>Why not just buy one of the third party 50 MHz 68030 accelerators and
>have done with it :-)  On the other hand, after seeing the bench mark
>specs on the 25 MHz 68040 <-- that's 40 (13 Megaflops!!) maybe I'll
>wait until Fall (August???) for the last of Apple's 680xx Macs...
>
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 Uh... sorry about this, but the company claimed performance of 68040 at
25 MHz is 20 MIPS, 3.5 MFLOPs, and 1.3 cycle per instruction in average.
Where did you get all those numbers? (I mean the 40 and 13)


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