From: utzoo!decvax!cca!news@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Timings for VAX vs M68000 etc. Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2257 Posted: Fri Jul 23 20:23:26 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 05:48:02 1982 To: info-micro at BRL From: MichaelVia: Parc-Maxc; 23 Jul 82 15:59-EDT Via: Brl; 23 Jul 82 16:27-EDT Via: Brl-Bmd; 23 Jul 82 16:40-EDT Via: Brl.ArpaNet; 23 Jul 82 20:23-PDT The reason that the 8 MHz versions of the 68000 ran less than half the speed of the 16 MHz version is because of wait states. I believe I said that the two 8 MHz machines tested ran with 2 and 4 wait states, respectively. Also, in the machine descriptions given I said that the VAX was a 780. Michael