22 Apr
2001
22 Apr
'01
1:59 p.m.
On April 22, jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
Even '030/'8881 at blistering 40Mhz, full
'040-25 trounces it due to
both built in cache w/ low losses and efficient CPU and FPU built in.
But that IIfx was out way earlier than '040 did. Another example,
...except for the fact that the IIfx has about a half dozen other
processors in there doing all sorts of other stuff to offload that
'030. It was the first Mac, for example, that could go about its
business formatting a floppy disk and give its (then single-tasking)
OS back to the user because the format was running on a separate
processor.
-Dave McGuire