Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!amdcad!tim From: tim@amdcad.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MAC 88000 Summary: How 'bout 29k? Message-ID: <22334@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 12 Jul 88 17:45:00 GMT References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE> <925@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@delirun.amd.com (Tim Olson) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices Lines: 25 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <925@garth.UUCP> walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) writes: | In article <370STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes: | >The Motorloa 88000 the processor of the future? For Motorola maybe. But hey, | >the Sun 4 with 10 MIPS performance is here NOW, using the SPARC architecture. | >And other companies are supporting SPARC, too. Last I heard, the 88000 was | >still a pipe dream. So why not the MacSPARC? | | Tektronix can fit the 88000 on a NuBus card because the cache and MMU is | integrated on the module. A SPARC couldn't fit, though I think Sun is | working on cache and MMU support now. Of course Clipper originated the | module with integrated CAMMU, and it's shipping in volume. (No commercial: | You can't buy a Clipper Mac board - only PC-AT, UNIX, and bad old MS-DOS :-) | Sigh :-( YARC (gee, what does that spell, backwards? ;-) is making a Mac II coprocessor board utilizing the Am29000 RISC processor and the Am29027 Arithmetic Accelerator. Performance is ~30,000 Dhrystones without requiring external caches (it uses burst mode accesses with interleaved static-column DRAMS). -- -- Tim Olson Advanced Micro Devices (tim@delirun.amd.com)