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- From: patrick@inlink.com (Charles Patrick Marks)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 060 vs PowerPC?
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 04:48:46 GMT
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- Steve Koren (koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com) wrote:
- :
- : Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com> wrote:
- :
- : > 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
- :
- : You have a good point. I dunno; I suppose I should believe that the 68K
- : emulator for the PPC will be faster than an 060, but I still have
- : trouble believing it. Faster than an 040, I will believe easily.
- :
- : That's not to say it couldn't be true, just that I haven't convinced
- : myself of it yet. Time will tell I suppose.
- :
- : - steve
- Also it would be very wise to write the ppc amiga-os to parralle process with the existing 680##
- just like it was another custom chip in the original amiga. This sould solve any problems running
- existing software. I'm not sure but,this could be the the most logical choice, in the evoloution
- of the amiga.
- The price of a 68060 is just to prohibitive, to waste funds on that proccessor when even more
- powerful ppc are soon comming to market.
- --
- Charles P. Marks Jr
- patrick@inlink.com
- InfoManiac To the core
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