torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (04/03/91)
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >The 040 isn't being shipped in machines by anyone except NeXT and >maybe HP. The 040s have been available to developers for SO long >that everyone has their boards done, they are just waiting for >040s to put in them! I'd say you'll see it for the Amiga as soon >as you see it for the Mac. Just as a data point, last week saw the debut of Radius' Rocket 040 board for the Mac II... So the 040 boards have arrived (at least for the Mac). >And, as to 15 mips not being fast enough, that's why >Motorola does things called R&D which allow them to come out with >new and faster chips! What a concept! There was the 68000, 010, >020, 030, now the 040, and there'll likely be an 050 as well. And >how about a 50MHz 040! A 50MHz 040 is still at least a year away I would venture. Such a CPU would still only rate about 25 Specmarks, which is one third of the performance available NOW in HP's Snake workstation. If I were a 68K customer, and looking to build a high-end machine, I'd have already decided to go to one of the RISC chips. Really, there's only Apple, Commodore and Atari who haven't shifted already. And the long-term emphasis coming out of Motorola these days finally seems to have shifted behind their 88K series (at the expense of the 68K). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Where can a nation lie when it hides its organic minds in a cellar dark and grim? They must be ... very dim.
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (04/03/91)
In article <1991Apr3.070650.25901@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > >>The 040 isn't being shipped in machines by anyone except NeXT and >>maybe HP. The 040s have been available to developers for SO long >>that everyone has their boards done, they are just waiting for >>040s to put in them! I'd say you'll see it for the Amiga as soon >>as you see it for the Mac. > > Just as a data point, last week saw the debut of Radius' Rocket 040 >board for the Mac II... So the 040 boards have arrived (at least for >the Mac). > So this week's World of Amiga should be interesting. We'll see if there are any companies showing/selling Amiga 040 boards. -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.
dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr3.075953.15226@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >In article <1991Apr3.070650.25901@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: >>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >> >>>The 040 isn't being shipped in machines by anyone except NeXT and >>>maybe HP. The 040s have been available to developers for SO long >>>that everyone has their boards done, they are just waiting for >>>040s to put in them! I'd say you'll see it for the Amiga as soon >>>as you see it for the Mac. >> >> Just as a data point, last week saw the debut of Radius' Rocket 040 >>board for the Mac II... So the 040 boards have arrived (at least for >>the Mac). >> > So this week's World of Amiga should be interesting. >We'll see if there are any companies showing/selling Amiga 040 >boards. > > -- Ethan > >Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb >A: None. It's a hardware problem. Well, before nay one else prints this, there is an ad in the current Amiga World for a 68040 accelerator board for the A2000. The thing that makes it incomplete is that I saw the same ad about a year ago, when they thought the 68040 would have been available. But the ad is there (page 53). David :) -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) -- Looking to buy a used 68000 CPU and 1.3 Kickstart