Author: Johan Klockars (as12-5-4.kp.g.bonet.se)
Date: 01-20-2002 01:38
> Yes, I donīt argue with that, but the Falc
> canīt take advantage of all those MIPS,
> since it still is just a poor 16bit 16MHZ
> machine.
Mine does fine with an AB040, which is much faster than that Dragonball, and I don't forsee any problems with the CT60.
Admittedly it wasn't terribly nice when I still had to use the Videl output, but nowadays, with an Eclipse/RageII, the Falcon hardware is not in the way too much.
> It will be the same story with the TOSter;
> You can plug a 800MHZ G4 card in, but the
> bus and SDRAM will still only run at 133MHZ.
Which is plenty for just about anything.
Sure, I have PC2100 memory in my current PC, but it makes very little difference compared to PC133 for most things.
> OK, at least there will be full 32 bit
> buses, and a 360MIPS/24bit DSP. Always
> something...
And what is going to use that DSP?
It's not like a whole lot of code was written for the one in the Falcon, and there were at least several tens of thousands of those sold.
> > The Dragonball fammily is in no way new
> Nope, but with a 68K core, it should be?
> The early Dragonballīs were ARM
> architecture.
No, the very latest Dragonball is the first ARM based one. Motorola has apparently finally realized that even handhelds need some performance.
> Anyway, it is a nice liīl processor, which
I wouldn't call anything 68000 based nice.
> also would give the Falc some new functions
And would fail to run even the Falcon OS,
as well as anything else compiled for an '030.
The CTII would be faster.
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