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CPUs The Central Processing Unit (CPU) is the most important part of a computer. This is where all the instructions are sent and handled. Here we compare the average Palm CPU against a Pentium III. The Palm CPU The most common processor used in Palms is the Dragonball EZ (DBEZ). The DBEZ is driven by the 68EC000 CPU manufactured by Motorola. This chip was initially introduced in the 1980s and was the CPU of the original Macintosh and Amiga. It was also later used in the Sega Saturn. 68EC000 Specifications: · Complex
Instruction Set Computer (CISC) The 68EC000 does not have floating point hardware (although it supports floating point operations), onboard cache or memory management. The Pentium III CPU This is the PC many of us owned in the year 2000. When it was released it was the world's highest performance microprocessor for PCs. Pentium III Specifications: · Reduced
Instruction Set Computer (RISC) with a CISC-RISC Translator Conclusion Its all about having the right tools for the job. A Pentium III is clearly a much more powerful machine than the Dragonball EZ's processor, but you don't need blazing floating point performance for what is basically an electronic scheduler. |
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