From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 17:25:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA20984 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:25:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA20975 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.65] by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0xUibE-0000to-00; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:25:08 -0800 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA15862; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:25:03 -0800 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:25:03 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: IDT processors? To: John-Mark Gurney cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19971109142944.41819@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jamil J. Weatherbee scribbled this message on Nov 9: > > Did anyone ever notice that 80386 backwards in 68308, does that mean that > > intel crap is just ass backwards motorola 68000's? > > What is the highest 68000 at this time 68400? How fast? > > the 68k line had numbers of 680[0-4]0... and the fastest clock for the > 68040 was 33mhz... the only similarities would be the 86 and 68.. Bzzzttt. Actually, that's 680[0-6]0. The '060 is a superscalar CISC/RISC hybred available in clock speeds up to 50MHz. A 68060/50 is 20..30% faster than a Pentium 90. In tests comparing a P90 running Windows95 against a 68060/50 Amiga, the Amiga often more than doubled the performance of the PC. Much of this is due to the superior design of AmigaDOS/Intuition over Windows95... ` Boot time: Win95 (3 small user-specific programs) 00:53 Amiga (32 user-specific, 57 tasks total) 00:22 Non-stop scrolling through 520Kb of text: Win95 2:18 Amiga 1:48 Similar ratios for various text editing functions (CygnusEditor vs UltraEdit-32 v4.10) Since CygnusEditor doesn't support sort-block, it was necessary to use an AREXX script to cut/save-to-file/sort-temp- file/re-insert. It still beat the PC by 50%. But this is all -way- off topic for a FreeBSD mailing list... -Pat