Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!hammer!coryb From: coryb@hammer.UUCP (Cory Barker) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: questions : os9,unix,rumors Message-ID: <1584@hammer.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 15:07:29 EDT Article-I.D.: hammer.1584 Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:07:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:25:09 EDT References: <396@ssc-bee.UUCP> <213@l5.uucp> Reply-To: coryb@hammer.UUCP (Cory Barker) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 Summary: In article <213@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >let it handle the user interface because (if it's a 68020) it's 2-3 >times as fast as the 68000. (Today's buggy National chips are roughly >68000 speed +/- 30%, and their future ones don't touch the 68020.) If Apparently John is unaware of the NS32332 which provides 3 times the performance of the NS32032 putting it in the same ballpark as the 68020. It will be available in December 85 (Yes, this one is on schedule!) and also has a leg up on the 68020 in its memory interface because it supports currently available dynamic rams in nibble mode. This becomes important when you get clock rates up around 15Mhz. Cory Barker PS. Yes, the 32000 series does have a few minor bugs left in current revisions, however I would not refer to them as buggy. The 68020 on the other hand...