[comp.sys.mac.system] Processor Power

bitting-douglas@cs.yale.edu (Douglas Bitting) (05/13/91)

In article <norton.673874740@extro> norton@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Norton Chia) writes:
>Don't forget, even if the 68040 is so much more powerful than the lowly 68000,
>it's only that much more... probably at most 20 times realistically. Can you

Actually, the '040 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 times more powerful
than the '030 (this is why a 25MHz '040 machine can blow the lights off a 50MHz
'030 machine)... and I am sure that the '030 is quite a bit more than twice as
powerful than the 68000.

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