Actually, on machines of similar clock speed,
the 603 is somewhat slower than a 601, IIRC.
Even the 603e, used in some of the later
PERFORMA family were slower, I think, but I'm
not positive on that one.
BTW, the word Frankenstein definitely applies.
I love looking back at the marketing hype on
these machines about how its "32 bit bus" was
going to speed them up. Yeah... a 32 bit
bus bridged to a 16 bit bus with a slow chip,
no DMA, a hacked-up interrupt handling system
that threw interrupt flag registers all over
the address space (I counted five, not counting
the regs on the actual IDE, SCSI, etc. cells.
Absolutely disgusting....
David
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Well, actually, we have pre-compiled SMP kernels
available from our ftp site:
ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/kernels/wip/
David
Actually, on machines of similar clock speed, the 603 is somewhat slower than a 601, IIRC. Even the 603e, used in some of the later PERFORMA family were slower, I think, but I'm not positive on that one. BTW, the word Frankenstein definitely applies. I love looking back at the marketing hype on these machines about how its "32 bit bus" was going to speed them up. Yeah... a 32 bit bus bridged to a 16 bit bus with a slow chip, no DMA, a hacked-up interrupt handling system that threw interrupt flag registers all over the address space (I counted five, not counting the regs on the actual IDE, SCSI, etc. cells. Absolutely disgusting.... David
I'm not aware of a 6300 that used the PCI mobo,
either. Was that only in non-US markets or
something?
David
dgatwood@mklinux.org