[comp.sys.apple] 68040 - How many megaflops??

SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (02/19/90)

On Sun, 18 Feb 90 15:49:30 EST Murph Sewall said:
>On the other hand, after seeing the bench mark
>specs on the 25 MHz 68040 <-- that's 40 (13 Megaflops!!) maybe I'll
>wait until Fall (August???) for the last of Apple's 680xx Macs...

Eeep!  I should have stopped to look that figure up.  It's 3.5 Megaflops
(compared to 0.6 for the 25 MHz 68030/68882 combo).  Still that's nearly
six times the megaflops of a IIci.  It's also faster than Motorola's
original spec sheet for the 68040.

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