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Re: A question about IBrowse
« on: January 15, 2005, 04:57:06 PM »
You're comparing 68040 and 68060. 68060 is more than twice as fast as 68040 at the same clock.

Also the TekMagic's bus to memory (situated on the board itself) is 32bit.

The only bottleneck on the A2000 are the chipmem writes, and apparently that isn't slowing it down as much as you'd imagine.
 

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Re: A question about IBrowse
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2005, 06:32:17 PM »
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It would be nice to a ColdFire cpu under the hood.

Perhaps...

However, I would advise everyone to wait until some impartial 3rd party has reviewed the ColdFire hardware. Elbox has been known to use misleading marketing before (Making big deal about Mediator pci<->pci speed which is mostly irrelevant, talking about megabits and not megabytes etc). I wouldn't be too surprised if the average performance of the ColdFire accelerator would be much worse than advertised.

Also showing the actual "Dragon" hardware running would certainly help proving it exists and works, considering the SharkPPC is still to be demoed running anything.

IMO you should stick with the real m68k for now.