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Subject: GEnie Weekend News - Warning: 700+ lines -JL

With apologies for the sloppy editing job, here it is, warts and all:



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     ||  As long as individual  stories are kept intact  and credit  |
     ||  is given, this  material may be  reproduced in ALL or PART  |
     ||  on a  privately owned  BBS or in a  user group newsletter.  |
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                                              Thanks to Denny Atkin, Editor,
                                                   COMPUTE's Amiga Resource,
                                                     for his generous input.





                       DateLine:  November 6, 1992
         This 5-MINUTE Newscast presents the following stories:
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  1. Commodore Unleashes Dynamite Multimedia Ad Campaign
  2. Commodore International Announces 1st-Quarter Net Loss of $18.8 Million
  3. CD-ROM and CDTV Now Available In U.S. For Amiga 500 Owners At Low Price
  5. ASDG Makes Amiga User Groups an Offer They Shouldn't Refuse
  6. FontDesigner: Professional Font Creation for the Typographer
  7. Pre'Spect Technics' MFC 2 MultiFaceCard for the Amiga
  8. Several OEMs Choose Seagate's 3.5" ST3283 for Variety of Applications
  9. PKludge v1.0 by Steve Koren
 10. Warning: Bogus SnoopDOS V1.6 Spotted!
 11. Intel P5, Motorola 68060 In MPU Limelight




                            *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                               1st of 11 Stories



              Commodore Unleashes Dynamite Multimedia Ad Campaign
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( \  /\  / )               *StarShip* News Network
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  \      /
   \_/\_/ell, they've finally done it. After years of fooling with a variety
of namby-pamby advertisements, Commodore has unleashed a dynamite ad campaign
for their new line of AGA computers -- specifically the Amiga 4000. Hitting
multimedia for all it's worth, backed by full technical specifications on the
A4000, Commodore produced a slick 4-page advertising insert in the October 19,
1992 issue of InfoWorld magazine -- which is SURE to be appearing in other
publications as well.

A 16-color Scan in HiRes Interlace of the full advertisement including three
separate enlanged scans of Amiga Guy -- the little graphics guy featured in
the ad, is available for downloading in *StarShip* Library File #17385
A4000_AD.LZH.

If you can't wait to find out what the ad says, here's the text from what we
consider to be an Amiga advertisement that finally says it like it is!


                    ____________________________________
                   |  ________________________________  |
                   | |                                | |
                   | |   After You Create The Most    | |
                   | |                                | |
                   | |    Powerful, Cost-Effective    | |
                   | |                                | |
                   | |   Multimedia Computers Ever,   | |
                   | |                                | |
                   | |       What Do You Do For       | |
                   | |                                | |
                   | |           An Encore?           | |
                   | |________________________________| |
                   |____________________________________|



                         Introducing The Amiga 4000
                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For years, the Amiga name has been synonymous with multimedia. We've proven to
the world that when you combine the brilliance of video, audio and animation
with a computer, incredible things can happen.

Well, now that the world has finally caught on to the concept, Commodore takes
the medium to an entirely new level: With the all-new Amiga 4000.

The A4000 frees you to do more multimedia computing for less than any other
personal computer. It empowers you to create exciting professional television
effects, stimulating interactive training programs, and more powerful
presentations like never before.

That's because the Amiga is the only computer designed as a multimedia machine
from the ground up. Which means the A4000 doesn't suffer the handicaps other
so-called multimedia machines endure. There is no need for costly, cumbersome
add-ons, no need to kludge together potentially incompatible components. So it
gives you spectacular multimedia performance right out of the box, at a price
that keeps the cost of imagination very realistic.

Sit in front of the A4000 and instantly you enter a world filled with
high-resolution graphics simultaneously displayed in up to 256,000 colors from
a palette of over 16.8 million hues. You gain a heightened ability to create
exciting graphics with full video overscan. And you attain the freedom to
create complex animations at full 30 Frames Per Second, not at 15 FPS.

You even have the option of choosing from a spectrum of high resolution modes
while still maintaining NTSC scan rate capability.

All this multimedia muscle, of course, comes through true design elegance. At
the heart of every A4000 lies our new, unique, custom coprocessors, the
Advanced Graphics Architecture chip set, and the latest multi-tasking
operating system, AmigaDOS 3.0. Add to this Motorola's thundering 68040 Chip
(which other computer companies consider to be enough on its own) and not only
is the A4000 blindingly quick, it literally gives you true workstation power.

Of course, there's much more to the A4000 than just being the ultimate tool
for creativity. It also comes with a large capacity hard drive, and a 1.76 MB
dual speed high density floppy drive which, when combined with Cross-DOS,
allows you to read and write MS-DOS files. And a design that allows for
expandability, compatibility and the capability for hundreds of business
applications.

In fact, the A4000 even fits seamlessly into whatever operating system you're
currently using by coexisting and communicating with your Macintosh or MS-DOS
computers in a Novell network.

And we back all this technology up with a potent service package that is
second to none. Including a 24 hour hotline and optional on-site service.

To find out more about Commodore Multimedia and the all-new Amiga 4000, call
1-800-66-AMIGA. (In Canada call 1-800-661-AMIGA.)

We'll show you an outstanding performance that will certainly bring you to
your feet.

             ________________________________________________

  *StarShip* News Note: This copy is followed by the full A4000 technical
  specifications which, in the interest of information overload, are not
  included here. A4000 Technical Specs are in *StarShip* Library file
  16990 SHOWPORT.TXT

  A Scan of this ad with enlargements of AmiMan, the graphics character
  featured, are available in *StarShip* Library file 17385 A4000_AD.LZH.

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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                             2nd of 11 Stories


Oops..


                     Commodore International Announces
                  First-Quarter Net Loss of $18.8 Million
    ____          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   / ___)              New York (Nov. 5) PR Newswire
  / /
 / (__
(_____)ommodore International Limited (NYSE: CBU) today reported a net loss of
$18.8 million, or $0.57 per share on sales of $158.6 million for the first
fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30, 1992.

This compares with earnings of $5.3 million, or $0.16 per share on sales of
$204.1 million in the year-ago quarter.

The decline in sales for the quarter was attributable to the economic softness
in the European consumer markets, primarily Germany. Weak consumer market
conditions had an impact on C64 and Amiga sales, while total PC revenues
increased compared with the prior year.

Although an operating loss was recorded for the quarter, primarily due to a
sales decline, the loss was significantly lower than the operating loss
recorded in the June quarter. Operating expenses continued to be managed
tightly and were significantly below the prior year and the June quarter.

Irving Gould, chairman and chief executive officer, stated: "We are
disappointed with our first quarter results and will continue to concentrate
on controlling expenses while focusing our efforts on sales for the Christmas
quarter."

Commodore International Limited, through its operating subsidiaries around the
world, manufacturers and markets personal computers to customers in the
professional, government, education and consumer market sectors. The company
has four product lines: the Amiga multimedia computers, the MS-DOS PC
compatibles, the C64 computers, and the CDTV.

CONTACT: Ronald B. Alexander, chief financial officer and secretary of
Commodore International Limited, 215-431-9100

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                    CD-ROM and CDTV Now Available In U.S.
                      For Amiga 500 Owners At Low Price
    _                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   / \              West Chester, PA --- October 28, 1992
  / - \
 / ___ \
(_/   \_)miga(R) 500 owners can now substantially extend the capabilities of
their computers by adding the new A570 CD-ROM drive to their machines for the
outstanding promotional MSRP of $399.00 (U.S.) till the end of December 1992.

The major benefits of the A570 are noteworthy and include over 600 megabytes
of CD storage, compatibility with an extensive library of CDTV interactive
multimedia software titles, additional RAM, and expandability options.

By adding the A570 drive to the Amiga 500 computer, users can now upgrade
their machines to take advantage of CDTV, the newest trend in home education
and entertainment. The uses of the diverse titles available in the CDTV
software library are virtually endless; exciting games, innovative reference
volumes and numerous education programs for all age groups. And all software
programs take advantage of CD-Audio, with video, color graphics and
interactivity.

Additionally, the A570 offers Amiga 500 owners the ability to expand their
computer storage capabilities with up to 2 megabytes of additional memory.
Plus the A570 features an expansion port that could be used to add devices
like SCSI interfaces or hard drives. The A570 can also play regular CDs and
includes a volume control and headphone jack.

To ensure that the A570 will work compatibly with the user's Amiga 500,
Commodore recommends that A570 buyers have their A500 computer checked and
upgraded at their local Authorized Service Center. In the event that there is
no local Authorized Service Center, customers will be able to contact
Commodore Express(R) to make arrangements for compatibility testing and
upgrading if required.

To speed compatibility assurance, A500 owners should check to see that their
A500 has 1 Megabyte of CHIP RAM installed and that the A500 has not been
modified in a way that voids the original Commodore Warranty.

Commodore Business Machines, Inc., based in West Chester, PA, is the
subsidiary of Commodore International Limited. The company manufactures and
markets a complete line of Amiga computers and peripherals for the business,
consumer, education and government markets.

Commodore and CDTV are trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited. Amiga is a
trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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                            *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
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        ASDG Makes Amiga User Groups an Offer They Shouldn't Refuse
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      As part of ASDG's continuing commitment to the Amiga community,
      Amiga user groups can receive free promotional material directly
      from the company. To receive the materials (which include video
      tapes, literature, buttons and other items pertaining to ASDG's
      award-winning Art Department Professional and its new MorphPlus
      video effects package), officers of registered Amiga user groups
      simply have to request them from ASDG.
    _
   / \               Madison WI -- October 29, 1992
  / - \
 / ___ \
(_/   \_)SDG Incorporated, the leading supplier of innovative color imaging
solutions for cinema and video, announce that they will provide promotional
kits free of charge to registered Amiga user groups.

The kits include literature, video tapes, buttons and other materials
pertaining to ASDG's award-winning Art Department Professional as well as the
new breakthrough product, MorphPlus.

To receive the promotional kit, officers of registered (with their country's
Commodore sales company) Amiga user groups need only contact ASDG's sales
manager, Ms. Gina Cerniglia. Once a user group has established a relationship
with ASDG, it will continue to receive new literature, videos and other
materials as they become available from the company.

ASDG's intent is to help user groups share in the leading edge excitement
which ASDG's products, especially MorphPlus, are generating.

The company's commitment to supporting Amiga user groups actually predates the
company. Company president, Mr. Perry Kivolowitz, co-founded the second Amiga
user group in the United States. Said Mr. Kivolowitz, "Having been a user
group president, I know how passionately user group members want to be on the
leading edge of Amiga developments. I also know how hard it is to get good
quality materials for user group consumption."

For more information about ASDG's color imaging solutions or to request a user
group kit, contact Gina Cerniglia at ASDG Incorporated, 925 Stewart Street,
Madison, WI 53713 or call (608) 273-6585.


Art Department Professional is a registered trademark and MorphPlus is a
trademark of ASDG Incorporated. Amiga is a registered trademark and Advanced
Graphics Architecture is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc.


 *StarShip* News Note: ASDG's exciting demonstration film (ANIM) "The Power
 of Positive Thinking," is available in its entirely from the *StarShip*
 Library, file 17338 TPOPT.LZH (Size: 1261952). It's a BIG download, with
 effects created entirely with ASDG's MorphPlus software, and you must have a
 hard drive and lots of RAM. (Ran fine on our 3MEG A2000). If you're looking
 for a demo that will roll people's eyes back in their heads, this is it!


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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                             6th of 11 Stories


                               FontDesigner:
              Professional Font Creation for the Typographer
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                ____  ______
                               / ___)/ __   )
                              / (_  / /  ) /
                             / ___)/ /  / /
                            / /   / /__/ /
                           (_/   (______/
Application

FontDesigner is an interactive program for the creation and conversion of any
font. Vector oriented fonts, symbols, or icons will be processed as Outline
Fonts. These fonts can then be further processed in varying sizes using
DeskTop Publishing programs such as PageStream(tm), Professional Page(tm) and
Publishing Partner(tm). The fonts will be available for use on laser printers
as well as Linotronics machines. They will also be available for use from the
WorkBench as Intellifonts.

Features

 - Supports different file formats:
     o  PostScript fromAdobe Type 1 or 3; AGFA-Compugraphic Intellifonts
     o  PageStream DMF(tm), IFF ILBM (for manual letter tracing)
     o  Direct Loading SoftFonts for PostScript Laser Printers or Linotronics
 - Supports Metric Formats: Adobe(tm) AFM, PageStream(tm) FM, Professional
   Page(tm) (Metric) and Intellifont(tm)
 - Different characters can be simultaneously processed in several windows
 - Optional presentation modes (filled, outline, etc)
 - Variable enlargement and reduction steps
 - Auto-scrolling when leaving the editing window
 - Character set summary window with direct select option
 - Various editing functions:
     o  For structured graphics (lines and Bezier curves) Selection
        according to multiples, paths, total, etc
     o  Interim storage for Cut, Copy and Insert; Rotation, Scaling, Tilt,
        Undo and Revert functions
 - Multi lingual software interface
 - Adjustment and savings of individual preferred configurations
 - Full support of ARexx Port
 - Print from character samples
 - Automatic generation of Font metrics
 - Full Milti-tasking capabilities
 - WorkBench 2.0 and ECS compatible
 - Supports A2024 and Moniterm monitors (1008 x 1024 pixels)

Minimum System Configuration

 - Minimum 1 MB RAM (3 MB recommended for higher resolution)
 - WB 1.3 (2.x recommended)

For more information contact Pre'Spect Technics, Inc., Box 53, Dorion Que J7V
2K0, Telephone: 514/424-5596; Fax: 514/424-5597

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                          *StarShip* Amiga *Flash*
                              7th of 11 Stories


    ____              MFC 2 MultiFaceCard for the Amiga
   / _  )             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  / ___/
 / /
(_/re'Spect Technics' MultiFaceCard is an expansion for the Amiga 2000 and
3000. It allows the use of more ports, thereby increasing the number of
peripherals usable by your Amiga. This card may also be used in an external
expansion chassis for the Amiga 500.

In order to allow for external connection of peripherals, you will receive two
sets of cables that will connect the card to the external connectors.

Parallel and serial software are provided on a diskette. To install the
software the user just dragS the diskette Icon into a drawer. With the
standard command BIND-DRIVERS on Workbench, the system will be automatically
booted. Having done this, the Amiga will recognize the new ports.

Some graphics programs demand the use of SER: or PAR:. For these requirements
the MultiFaceCard software can rechannel the graphic signal to whichever port
you require.

Price - $295.00

The MultiFaceCard has Evolved!!!

It is now in its second generation, and is finally being produced in North
America -- Canada to be precise. The manual has been written in pure English;
French and German versions are available on request, and a Spanish version is
in the works.

The is the best of news for Amiga power users. You can now bypass the state of
constipation which the I/O restrictions of the Amiga give you, and you can do
so without undue delay.

For those of you unfamiliar with the operations of the MultiFaceCard, the
diagram below, and the spec sheet further on will help you understand why it
is one of the fastest selling products for the Amiga users.

       ______
      ||    ||         Software
      ||____||           Driver
   .------------.          \    . .                 ..........
   |Amiga   ::::|           \ .     .              : PAR      :  Amiga
   |____________|        .---         ----.       / ~~~~~~~~~~
                         |   :  PIT  :    |
                         |    .     .     |     /   ..........
   :~~~~~~~~~~:          |      . .       |        : SER      :  Amiga
   : Software :\         |                |    /  / ~~~~~~~~~~
   :..........: \        |                |
                 \       | MultiFace Card |      /
   :~~~~~~~~~~:   \      |                |         ..........
   : Software :____\ ... |  using its own | ... /__: PAR      :  MultiFace
   :..........:    /     |  two Motorola  |     \   ~~~~~~~~~~   Card
                  /      |  Processors    |    \  \ ..........
   :~~~~~~~~~~:  /       |                |        : PAR      :  MultiFace
   : Software : /        |      . .       |      \  ~~~~~~~~~~   Card
   :..........:/         |    .     .     |
                         |___         ____|    \  \ ..........
                             : DUART :             : SER      :  MultiFace
                            / .     .           \   ~~~~~~~~~~   Card
                           /    . .
                       Software                   \ ..........
                         Driver                    : SER      :  MultiFace
                                                    ~~~~~~~~~~   Card


 o Works with AmigaDOS 2.0.
 o Tested with the new Amiga 4000.
 o Tested with all the new high speed modems up to 57,600 baud.

Features:
 - Two parallel ports
 - Two serial ports (RS232)
 - All ports are external
 - All four ports are Amiga compatible
 - Easy software installation
 - Simultaneous output from all ports is possible
 - Compatible with all software (including ART Department Pro)
 - Several cards may work alongside each other
 - Graphically controllable
 - May be disabled via a switch
 - Half length card for the Zorro II slot
 - Comes with parallel interface timer MC68230
 - Comes with dual asynch receiver/transmitter MC68681
 - Compatible with Amiga 3000 and WorkBench 2.0
 - Fastest data transfer via parallel port
 - Interrupt level is switchable
 - Hardware is programmable for software developers
 - Serial port for all standard baud rates
   (75,110,134.5,150,300,600,1200,2000,2400,4800,7800,9600,19200,
    MIDI 31250 and up to 57600)
 - Operation manual in English, French and German

For more information, contact Pre'Spect Technics, Inc., Box 53, Dorion Que J7V
2K0, Telephone: (514) 424-5596; Fax: (514) 424-5597.

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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                              8th of 11 Stories


                    Several OEMs Choose Seagate's 3.5"
  ____              ST3283 for Variety of Applications
 / ___)             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
( (__           Scotts Valley, CA (NOV. 4) -- Business Wire
 \__ \
 ___) )
(____/eagate Technology Wednesday announced that several leading OEMs --
including NeXT Computer and Commodore -- have selected Seagate's low-profile,
high-performance ST3283 hard disc drive for use in a range of computer
applications.

The versatile 3.5-inch ST3283 has earned a reputation among major OEMs for
offering industry-leading performance at the 245 Megabyte level of storage
capacity -- with an average seek time of 12 milliseconds for read/write
commands and a 4,500 RPM spindle rotation speed.

NeXT Computer is using the Seagate drives in its line of entry-level
workstations. Because the ST3283 has an average power consumption of only 3.5
watts and therefore dissipates less heat, the drive is ideal for emerging
down-sized workstation applications such as the NeXTstation Turbo.

"NeXT doesn't make compromises on technology, and they don't expect their
users to have to either. Seagate's ST3283 offers the increased performance
levels required by NeXT customers without the penalty of higher power
consumption -- it's a high-performance storage solution without compromises,"
said Stacey Lund, Seagate's director of Marketing.

On the desktop, Commodore is using the ST3283 for high-performance PC
applications. Commodore is designing the ST3283N into its 68030- and
68040-based Amiga 3000 line. After evaluating a variety of hard disc drives
from different manufacturers, Commodore chose the ST3283N because it met all
the criteria the company had established for a hard drive.

"Our hard drive decision was an easy one because the Seagate ST3283 ranked
above the competition in our key requirement areas -- price/performance,
system performance and overall quality," said Randy Hilton, Mass Storage
Specialist for Commodore. "Seagate shares our belief that good business starts
with the customer, identifying their needs and developing timely solutions
that are of the highest quality."

"We are pleased that one Seagate product can meet customers' needs across a
range of applications," said Alan F. Shugart, Seagate's president and chief
executive officer. "These OEM contracts are the result of Seagate's research
and development commitment to generate innovative, timely solutions for all of
today's data storage applications."

The ST3283 features exceptionally high areal densities and Seagate's patented
Zone Bit Recording (ZBR). In addition to its leading 12 ms average seek time,
the ST3283 features track-to-track seeks of 3.5 ms and an average latency of
6.7 ms. The drive also provides exceptional reliability, with a non-operating
shock specification of 75Gs.

Seagate Technology is a leading supplier of disc storage products to original
equipment manufacturers and remarketers worldwide. The company's common stock
is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol: SGAT.

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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                             9th of 11 Stories



    ____                PKludge v1.0 by Steve Koren
   / _  )               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  / ___/
 / /
(_/Kludge is a mode promotion Commodity for AmigaDos 3.0 which is now
available in *StarShip* Library file 17371 PKLUDGE010.LZH. It allows any mode
to be promoted to any other mode, mode promotion keyed from the screen name or
title, and resizing and moving screens during mode promotion.

PKludge is useful to:

1. Promote all screens to a single scan rate to avoid re-syncing on multisync
   monitors during screen flipping

2. Use 800x600 or higher resolutions with some applications which don't know
   how to open those screens but can otherwise handle bigger screen sizes

3. Use PAL:Productivity 640x400 mode instead of DblNTSC:High Res Lace mode,
   since the productivity mode tends to be more visible on some Amiga 4000's

Requires AmigaDos 3.0 or later. See the docs file for more details.

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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
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                   Warning: Bogus SnoopDOS V1.6 Spotted!
   ____            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  (_  _)            from Eddy Carroll, Author, Oct. 29
   / /
 _/ /
(____)t has come to my attention that a version of SnoopDOS V1.6 has appeared
on some bulletin boards. This is a bogus version which apparently contains
code to add a backdoor to certain BBS systems. I have no idea whether it has
any other nasty side effects.

Things are further complicated by the fact that I have given a copy of a real
SnoopDOS V1.6 to some people (which contains some very minor bug fixes to
V1.5).

An easy way to tell them apart is with Workbench 2.0's VERSION command. The
bogus copy has no version string, while the good copy reports: SnoopDOS V1.6
(19 August 1992).

The bogus copy of SnoopDOS is 11312 bytes in size while the good copy is 10808
bytes. In addition, the documentation with the bogus version is badly
formatted and has some grammatical errors.

So, if you see a copy of SnoopDOS 1.6 on a BBS or FTP site anywhere, please
inform the Sysop and ask him to delete it.

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                          *StarShip* NEWS *Flash*
                             11th of 11 Stories


   ____         Intel P5, Motorola 68060 In MPU Limelight
  (_  _)        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   / /             by Jonathan Cassell, Burlingame, CA
 _/ /
(____)ntel and Motorola engineers last week detailed the superscalar,
pipelined architectures of the respective P5 and 68060 microprocessors at the
annual Microprocessor Forum here.

(P5 decription)

Motorola's 060 is a 32-bit processor with a superscalar, pipelined
architecture. It has more than 2 million transitors, using a 0.5-micron,
triple-layer metal, 3.3 volt process in a static design. Performance will be
3.5 times the 25MHz 68040, or about 46 Specmarks, according to Joe Circell,
68000 advanced microprocessor architect for Motorola.

Separated in the 060 are instruction caches and data caches; instruction fetch
pipelines (with four-stage instruction processor, a physically-mapped 8Kbyte
instruction cache with four-way self associative, a virtually mapped,
256-entry branch cache and a FIFO instruction buffer), and operand execution
pipelines (with four-stage operand processor, a physically mapped 8Kbyte data
cache with 4-way interleaving and a 4-entry, 32-bit write buffer).

The floating point unit - implemented in the execution stage of the operand
execution pipeline - is compatible with the 040 FPU programming model.
Floating point execution times range from 1-24 cycles. The 060 superscalar
dispatch algorithm can execute 50 to 60 percent of integer code instructions
as pairs with existing compilers.

The 060 will come in 040-style packaging, with a similiar external bus. The
first versions will sample in the second half of 1993, go into production in
Q1 1994, and run at 50MHz and 66MHz.

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