Author: Johan Klockars (as12-5-4.kp.g.bonet.se)
Date: 01-19-2002 16:52
> I feel kinda sorry for Rodolphe, honestly.
...
> But now, when he is about to deliver, then
> Moto is about to release the Dragonball CPU,
The Dragonball fammily is in no way new. The latest version has a few more devices integrated, though, and what looks like an updated processor core.
> which, to me, looks like it was designed for
> use in just the Falcon. At a price that is
> just a tiny fractal of the price of an 060...
It is also has just a tiny fraction of the performance. According to Motorola's own documentation, the 68SZ328 has a performance of 10.8 (VAX, presumably) MIPS at 66 MHz. Compare that to their number of 110 MIPS for the '060 at 66 MHz...
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