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to: Bob Lawrence
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1997-02-15 09:22:18
subject: 32 bit

Hi Bob



 BL> ...... A Pentium is just a Z80 on steroids, moving more and more

 BL> shit about faster. 32-bits have proved a dead loss, mostly using

 BL> twice the memory with a size handicap and no great speed advantage so

 BL> what happens?



The Skymap program I use was ported from Win31 to Win95 a year or

so ago, with a claimed doubling of speed in numerical calculations.



 BL> I think the next step is going to be a much smaller

 BL> software coupled to the CPU itself, directly... a specialist GUI CPU

 BL> that lets us send much smaller instructions.



Won't that become obsolete slightly faster than the current crop of

too-slow general purpose cpu's?



Cheers



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