At 1:14 Uhr +0200 30.08.1997, Colin Wood wrote:
>Which machine would be better for running NetBSD?  A Q650 w/ 66MHz '040 or
>a Q700 w/ 40MHz '040?

Where-O-Where would you get a Q650 with a *66*MHz 68040 from, Colin?

=8)

The 33->66 transition is a marketing answer to the 80486DX2/66. Many units
on the '040 are double-clocked, but Motorola's marketing is (or used to be)
a bit more conservative, relying more on technical data than on the
stupidity of their average customer.

Would there be a significant (i.e. noticeable)
>difference between NetBSD performance on the 2?

Yes; the Q700 would be a bit faster.
>
>How much speedup is there from a fast '030 machine to an '040 machine?
>

It's a 3.5hrs kernel compile on an SE/30 versus a 50min compile on a
Q700/33 ("old" sbc driver).

	hauke




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