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- Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 22:31:01 -0700
- Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
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-
- The mortal Steve Koren wrote:
- : Depends on how you look at it, I figure. At the absolute soonest, there
- : might be a PowerAmiga in what, a year maybe? And I very much doubt
-
- PowerAmiga isn't going to be a 68K emulation environment. But even a PPC
- that is a "68K standin" may possibly be able to be faster than the
- fastest 060 and surely cheaper. It won't be a year before PPC cards
- arrive for existing Amigas, and they won't be sold obviously without the
- capacity to run old software on them.
-
- What the PPC cards will do, therefore, is provide the necessary
- horsepower that the 68K line can not, and otherwise function as pure 68K
- emulation CPUs running 100% old code besides the bootstrap CPU emulator.
- If that's the case, it is probably wiser to pick the PPC accellerator
- since there will be faster and faster PPC CPUs to choose from, but
- nothing faster than an 060/50 is likely. An 060 investment therefore
- will be a deadend, and a PPC investment will be much more worthwhile.
-
- When the all-PPC Amigas arrive, the native OS will probably be compatible
- with the earlier PPC accellerators, or at least a flavor will be made
- available for them. I don't see how you can lose in the longrun with a
- PPC accellerator as long as they arrive on the scene soon. The window of
- viability of the 060 is very narrow indeed. I wish it were not so
- because I don't like to see the end of the 68K line but it does seem that
- way.
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