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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: MIPS (was Re: NeXT Press Release)
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In article <1991Apr24.043828.7213@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes:


   [awesome specs for the 68040 deleted]
	
   Looks like this CISC chip is right in there with all those RISC chips and
   you don't have to make any allowances like re-writing your code :-)


Look at the SPECmarks that were posted earlier yesterday.  They're
more indicative of the actual performance.  By this time next year,
MIPS will have a 50 mip processor that only runs at 25MHz.  HP has a
RISC chip in their Snake machines that SPECS at 54.  It costs around
$12,000.  The 68040 SPECs at around 12 or 13.

The i860 is a RISC chip.  Look at its benchmarks sometime.

Also, quit writing your code in assembler.  That's not how it's done
anymore.  The Amiga doesn't have enough good professional software as
it is.  What's going to happen when everyone switches to RISC
chips(NeXT is going to), but Commodore can't because all of the Amiga
software software is written in assembler?

-Mike

