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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: dedicated vs general-purpose CPUs
Message-ID: <1264@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 21:37:22 GMT
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In article ... henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <1241@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >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...

You left out the other half of my statement, which is that for the application
the blitter is far faster than another 68000. And of course 2 more 68000s
would burn more CPU.

> Also, you get what you pay for.

And you pay for what you can afford. This is a personal computer. If it
costs as much as a small car I can't afford it... I can just barely afford
a small car right now (Mazda 323, a nice little machine, for all it's got
less than 64K of RAM).
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"