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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PPC Accelerators
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 14:26:22 +0100
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- Swiftshadow wrote:
- >
- > Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch (uwek@baugi.ifi.uio.no) wrote:
- > : >I was thinking that it would be a great feature if they could sell the
- > : >PPC board seperately (public version), but with the ability to add on
- > : >an 030/040/060 CPU daughter board. This would permit full software
- > : >compatibility as far as CPU is concerned at likely better speeds than
- > : >could be emulated through PPC emulation software.
- >
- > : Since the emulation is said to be as fast as a 040@25MHz, there is
- > : little point in adding another processor. Adding a 060 would
- > : make it very expensive, without adding THAT much speed.
- >
- > I couldn't agree with you more. When the 68K emulation was first released
- > by Apple it was clocked at a speed of a 25MHz 040. Given that the Power
- > Amigas and PPC boards will be using a faster PPC than was originally
- > available at the time that the emulation was released and that the
- > software has likely been somewhat improved since then, the performance is
- > likely to be higher. But for the sake of argument, lets say that all you get
- > is 25 MHz 040 performance. That means that putting anything below a
- > regular 040 would just slow you down. I would say putting even a faster 040
- > you would still be losing, because the newer versions of the PPC and the
- > emulation software will likely give you faster emulation speeds. It just
- > isn't justifiable to add another CPU to a board (and like the above
- > poster said, only an 060 makes sense), for what is really a stop gap
- > measure while the Amiga OS is completely ported. It would add
- > unnecessarily to the cost of such a board. The only reason I heard that
- > the board had such an extra CPU onboard was because it was a prototype.
- > As in used for testing...
- >
- > : Where have you heard that? What we KNOW is that emulation is in
- > : the works, and it offers resonable performance at a minimal price.
- >
- > : donV
- > : --
- >
- > Swiftshadow
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- IF THIS IS FOR REAL I'M MIGHTY HAPPY!!!!
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