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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Dan3 who wrote (93441)2/16/2000 5:14:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1571109
 
Re: "When it became clear that it was losing the MHZ war to Intel (back in the days when 68XXX was a real contender with 80XXX) didn't Apple (or Motorola) briefly try to claim a 2X clock speed? I believe the justification was that parts of some operations took place at both the rise and fall of the clock. When it was pointed out to them that the same thing held true for parts of Intel's chip (though fewer parts), they dropped the claim."

As I remember they tried to leverage off the 2X thing. Intel was selling 486DX2s and the 68040 had a clock that was 2x the core speed so they thought nobody would notice the fact that theirs was divided by 2 while Intel's was multiplied by 2.

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