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- From: nyhlen@oodis01.af.mil ( Peter W. Nyhlen EE)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PPC 603 vs. PPC 604
- Message-ID: <4376@oodis01.af.mil>
- Date: 17 Mar 96 05:38:58 GMT
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- Organization: Hill AFB, Utah
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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?
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- I think you heard about the PPC615. That was suppose to be a PPC chip with
- x86 instructions on it. I don't think it got very far before it was
- scraped. Then again it looks like the 620 may also be scraped.
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- Peter
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