Author: Alex F. (dialup-62.67.149.54.Dial1.Frankfurt1.Level3.net)
Date: 12-25-2001 14:53
Wow,
30 MIPS for the fastest 486? That's about a quarter of the 68060 :-)
(and the 68k runs at 20MHz less)
As you can see, Motorola CPUs have always had about twice the speed of Intels,
but can anybody tell me why exactly this is?
Also the 68000 had half of the transistors of the 286 and was running at about half of its speed
but had the same performance.
And is it true that even modern (?) Pentium4 can only access 8 registers due to being compatible with 386s?
I can't quite understand why the Intel CPUs are such far behind, Intel can't profit from such a monopoly as Microsoft can.
But perhaps I am totally wrong? (Let's see, I get hardware-informatics next semester...)
merry christmas to all,
Alex
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