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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!dimensional.com!not-for-mail From: "Peter J. Bartlett" <peteb@fusionmm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Has 2.2.1 been a bit rushed out the door? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:37:18 -0600 Organization: Fusion MicroMedia Corp. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <337B901E.87F@fusionmm.com> References: <tporczyk.862358549@shell3.ba.best.com> <5kfi0v$s03@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5kiot2$17q@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <5kl383$68q@chronicle.concentric.net> <E9q5wy.xu@sphynx.fdn.fr> <5l501r$16j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: peteb@fusionmm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.206.187.15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41014 J Wunsch wrote: > > causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) wrote: > > > If you argue about computing power, the 80x86 clearly beats the 74x86 !!! > > However, the "exclusive OR" operation is performed many, many times > > faster with a 74x86 !!! > > Really? I think a standard series (no Schottky etc.) 7486 had a > propagation delay around 7 ns. I think you could beat this with a > 200 Mhz CPU, since an XOR operation will be handled within one clock > tick when the operands are in registers. ;-) > > -- > cheers, J"org > And you get 16 or 32 bits of XOR instead of just 4! And all kinds of other logic functions (AND, OR, etc) thrown in FOR FREE!!! Why does anybody continue to use TTL when they can pick up some good ol' 8086s for cheap? -- Peter J. Bartlett email: peteb@fusionmm.com Senior Design Engineer voice: (303)651-1000 ext. 234 Fusion MicroMedia Corporation fax: (303)651-1199