Phoebus
> Claude Mourier wrote:
> >Conclusion : it's sad Motorola never released fasters 68k processors.
> >80Mhz is 1/20 compared with 1,6Ghz.
> It actually has and it will keep on releasing faster ones for quite
> some time...
>
> The colfdfire v.5 and 6 cores (esp. the v.6 core which will be 100%
> 68K compatible and offer two full superscalar units will initially
> run at 800 MHz..... which means that a 1.6 GHz Intel CPU won't be
> very far away :-)
However, is it binary (as well as source code) campatible? I can find
no mention of this CPU on Motorola's website or the Internet at large.
> From the m68k FAQ:
>
> "MC68060:
[snip]
> most branches to execute in zero cycles. The '060 offers 100 MIPS
> @ 66mhz and 250 million operations per second @ 50mhz.
This is a mistake in the FAQ.
> SPECint = 50 @ 50Mhz. "
--
Yours Tarquin Mills
