--- Jude Giampaolo <jude@smellycat.com> wrote:
> One must also consider that clock speed alone the
> Pentium in question is
> over 20 times faster....
> 
> --
> Jude Giampaolo
> http://prozac.eeap.cwru.edu/jude/          "Corn
> Nog?"
> jude@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu
> 
> 

Well of course, everyone knows that.

I do hope you're not trying to imply that a 68030
designed in the mid to late 80's is going to be faster
clock for clock than a Pentium II with a deschutes
core designed in 1998.  I like the 68k series CPU's. 
If IBM had chosen the 68000 instead of the 8088 for
the original PC, things like the 640k DOS barrier
might not have existed.  Writing programs for the PC
certainly would have been simpler not having to worry
about memory models and all the convoluted methods of
dealing with them.  Not many people have to deal with
those issues anymore thankfully, but for years they
were a major pain.

Lee Reynolds

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