Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:12:00 06/18/02
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On June 18, 2002 at 11:20:15, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On June 15, 2002 at 07:02:34, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>Hi Peter,
>>
>>a 486-50 mhz is as fast as a TASC R40
>>or a chessmachine 32 Mhz.
>>
>>maybe faster than the sparc module for saitek.
>>only when the sparc runs at high speed,
>>it could be as strong.
>>
>>the palm is only 68020 level.
>>when you want to relate that against each other,
>>the 486 is IMO too fast.
>>
>
>
>The 68020 was a LOT faster than the 68000. (The 68030 was only about 10% faster
>than the 68020 for integer work but included a FPU.)
>
>The chip in current Palm OS devices, like the 68000, is not nearly as fast as a
>68020, AFAIK.
Some say that it is even slower than the 68000, in clocks per instructions.
Fortunately it can be clocked faster, so in the end it reaches the 68020 level
(I guess an overclocked Palm must be as fast as a 12MHz 68020, but I'm not a 68K
expert).
Christophe
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