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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 15:07:29 1985
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References: <396@ssc-bee.UUCP> <213@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: coryb@hammer.UUCP (Cory Barker)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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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...