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