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- From: Jonas Elfstrom <jonas@plea.se>
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- Subject: Re: Alpha for A4000/3000 ???
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:11:00 +0000
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- Michael van Elst wrote:
- >
- > fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath) writes:
- >
- > >AmigaOS 4.x will probably be a RISC OS, not necessarily limited to PPC.
- > >They might buy a source license and compile for ALPHA ;-)
- >
- > Unlikely. The Alpha will run as a coprocessor to accelerate specific
- > applications.
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- I think so too.
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- >
- > >Isn't the ALPHA extremly good at emulating other processors?
- >
- > No. It is just generally fast, and thus fast when emulating other processors.
- >
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- Actually it is very good emulating because you can reprogram it's microcode.
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