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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
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- Subject: Re: PPC 603 vs. PPC 604
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 00:53:14 GMT
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- > Dave Gentry (dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com) wrote:
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- >: 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?
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- > 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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- Theres some specs on the Motorola web page...
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- the bloody thing handles 1 billion gig of virtual memory!!!! (if my powers of
- ten are right)
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- even if I'm a few zeros out either way.... thats a lot of HD space...
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- Lee
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