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: Michael 
Via:  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