kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (10/01/86)
Uh oh, it's the CPU wars again...[Warning -- 68000 partisan] It seems to me that the 68030, not the 68020, competes with the '386. Isn't this right? Intel seems proud of the fact that they have arrived first in the market at each 'generation' (8086 vs. 68000, 80286 vs. 68020, 80386 vs. 68030). But what do they think of the relative power of the competing devices? I note that Commodore Amiga (and other vendors) sell software emulators for the 8086 that have reasonable performance on the 68000. What about this? What about relative floating point performance of the comparable chips when an application cannot afford the expensive 8087 coprocessor? What about the disastrous tradeoffs that must be made when a program must access large data arrays? Even the lowly 68010 could operate in a true virtual memory environment, but Intel has only recently arrived at this performance level. Now I agree that Mot. has jumped the gun substantially in their announcement of the 68030, and are therefore sinking to a rather low level of marketing. They join another company at that level, one who has a longstanding reputation for bogus benchmarks, late deliveries, non-functional production silicon, and offensive marketing. [I am affiliated with neither Intel nor Motorola. Opinions are my own.]
ed@plx.UUCP (10/04/86)
> Uh oh, it's the CPU wars again...[Warning -- 68000 partisan] > > It seems to me that the 68030, not the 68020, competes with the '386. Isn't > this right? Intel seems proud of the fact that they have arrived first in > the market at each 'generation' (8086 vs. 68000, 80286 vs. 68020, 80386 vs. > 68030). But what do they think of the relative power of the competing > devices? I note that Commodore Amiga (and other vendors) sell software > emulators for the 8086 that have reasonable performance on the 68000. Obviously, a non-amiga-owner. Anyone who has had experience whith the "Down's Syndrome" PC emulator (Transformer) realizes that software emulations (interpretive ones) are absolute SH*T. Don't get me wrong, I think the 386 is gonna lose in the CPU wars. COME ON GUYS!! KEEP THIS DISCUSSION IN net.micro.68k or net.micro.pc OK?? Ed Chaban Plexus Computers Inc. Phone: (408) 943-2226 Net: sun!plx!ed