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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: 68040 = 3.5 MFLOPS ?????
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Date: 23 Feb 90 21:29:23 GMT
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In-Reply-To: KUO@oregon.uoregon.edu's message of 23 Feb 90 03:00:25 GMT

In article <16342@oregon.uoregon.edu> KUO@oregon.uoregon.edu (Shijong Kuo) writes:

   According to an article on 68040 in lateset DDJ, Motorola omitted
   floating point intructions for transcendental functions with their new CPU. 

   Perhaps the 3.5 MFLOPS rating touted by Motorola shouldn't be taken seriously!

   kuo@oregon.uoregon.edu

   Why shouldn't everybody try to "mess up" the $50,000 ceiling of F.I.C.A.


In the lastest issue of Byte, they state that even though the
transcendenatal functions are simulated in software a 25%(might be wrong) to
100% increase can still be expected over the 68882.

- Mike