Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> My information came directly from Motorola engineering in the early '90s.
That was before the 68060, wasn't it?
> I'd be willing to say the 68K family is entirely microcoded.
I still think that's not true for the 68060.
> here is the problem, there is no way to confirm anything.
I have no reason to doubt the sources I quoted. Do you have any serious sources for the 68060 using microcode?
No info I can rely on, but if the previous generations were, why change for the '060?
And the '060's design really derives from the '060 (really a kind of super scalar version of the '40).
And I'm trying not to even dignify takemehomegrandma's latest posts.
Apparently he has not been paying attention to your reports on the latest 64 bit ARM cpus.
And my about ten year old G5 beats some of the scores I get with one Core2 based system I have.
Some PPCs certainly beat lower end X64 systems and are light years away from what Amigas started with.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
