4 Jan
2021
4 Jan
'21
6:35 a.m.
On 2021-01-03 19:08, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 03:53, Boris Gimbarzevsky
<boris at summitclinic.com> wrote:
I guess we have to be careful, comparing machines & CPUs.
68000 came out as a CPU in 1980/1981 (available on the market (?))
You're comparing it to a ARM2 machine of 1987, where Motorola had the
newer 68020, and 68030 by than ...
Ran into 68000 processor for
first time in 1986 when my father bought a 512 K
Mac and couldn't believe performance of this CPU
It is odd. I had read of it, of course, but for me the revelation was
getting an Acorn Archimedes in 1989, with an 8MHz ARM2, and seeing it
blast past benchmarks of ~8MHz 68K machines such as the Amiga 500 or
Atari 512 ST. It was about 4x faster, I believe.