Computer collecting humor.

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Nov 8 22:01:06 1997

<> That was 64bits of internal storage and that is different from a 64bit
<> parallel CPU. Also 613khz is slow.
<
<Not that slow. Depends what you do with the clock. Remember that a
<Motorola 6809 running at .8 Mhz (800 Khz) could always beat an Intel
<8088 running at 4.77 Mhz by at least 25% and usually 50% in tests I
<used.

It is when you compare it to contemporary 64bitters runiing at typical
clocks. The HP being aimed at calculator like apps didn't need speed.

As to the 6809 vs 8088 there is a big difference in how the clock is used
to time the cpu and how many clock cycles it takes to execute a given task.
The classic case is the 6502 at 2mhz against the 6800 at the same speed.
This is generally why I don't compare clocks. But 613khz is by most
respects slow, how slow is not relevent as for that application it was fast
enough.


Allison
Received on Sat Nov 08 1997 - 22:01:06 GMT