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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PPC 603 vs. PPC 604
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 13:56:36 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- Dave Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
-
- : p.s. I'd also heard that the PPC620 was basically just a secret
- : project at IBM to incorporate an x86 core on the die of a 604. Any
- : confirmation?
-
- No, that was the PPC615 which supposedly incorporated a 486 core.
- The PPC620 is supposed to be the first full 64bit PPC if it ever
- appears. There's some rumour that IBM cancelled it, seeing it wasn't
- much faster than the faster 604e's but much more expensive to produce.
-
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