From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:ucbesvax!turner Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Title: 68k vs. 8086 - (nf) Article-I.D.: ucbcad.601 Posted: Tue Feb 15 02:30:47 1983 Received: Thu Feb 17 07:01:52 1983 #N:ucbesvax:5900001:000:456 ucbesvax!turner Feb 14 20:38:00 1983 Recently, I have seen some Intel advertisements claiming something close to a 2-to-1 speed advantage for the 8086 (or '186 or '286) over the 68000. Having used both C and assembler on both, at one time or another, I find this hard to believe. The 68000 seems inescapably superior in performance. Does anyone know the real story on this? Certainly, for floating point Intel has it made. But for anything else? Michael Turner