Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: dedicated vs general-purpose CPUs
Message-ID: <1988Aug12.192925.4663@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5254@june.cs.washington.edu> <76700032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1988Aug7.013952.7842@utzoo.uucp> <1241@ficc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 88 19:29:25 GMT

In article <1241@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> You forgot the third alternative:  add a second (third, etc.) 680x0 or
>> RISC or whatever.
>
>This costs money. A lot of money. Last I checked, a complete Amiga cost
>less than a single 68030...

So add another 68000 instead of a 68030.  The memory bandwidth is there
anyway, since one 68000 only uses about half...

Also, you get what you pay for.
-- 
Intel CPUs are not defective,  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
they just act that way.        | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu