Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site amd70.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!amd70!phil From: phil@amd70.UUCP (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.68k,net.arch Subject: Re: 68020 vs. 32032, pros and cons Message-ID: <4742@amd70.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 16:23:54 EDT Article-I.D.: amd70.4742 Posted: Mon Jun 25 16:23:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jun-84 00:25:02 EDT References: <98@utastro.UUCP> Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 14 When I said "it's a shame National thinks the way to speed up a computer is to increase the clock", I expected people to think of pipelining. I think benchmarks which show how well a particular device performs at 16 MHz with no wait state memory are somewhat misleading in that such memory is quite expensive and either the system will be more expensive or the system won't perform as well in reality. I submit the bus interface of the 286 as an example of a well thought out, efficient memory interface. But I've already gotten on my soapbox about this so I'll just go quietly. -- Phil Ngai (408) 982-6825 {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!phil