CompuServe Messages

Jonahan, Thanks for the reference. I thought I was the only guy in the world who got OEM magazine, although I admit to only skimming it. Out of curiosity, do apps have to be rewritten to optimize the capabilities of the 68060? Or is it absolutely instruction identical with the 68040? If not the latter, than my question would be how many developers – of the few who are left – are going to invest the extra bucks recompiling and perhaps extensively rewriting their 680×0 code? Otherwise, you have the same situation as you do with the Pentium: increased operating speeds, but not really realizing the potential of the CPU. "Undoubtedly, the PPC is more powerful and someday, there will be an OS to take advantage of it." Well, it sure as hell isn't Macintosh System 7.5 which does nothing to exploit the inherent capabilities of the PPC – and IBM may never release its OS/2 port for the PPC. While all my back issues of OEM have long since been consigned to the trash heap, I will try to remember to look at the next one for a Motorola 68060 ad. Jerry