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- From: HAAVARD JAKOBSEN <haa_jako@gih.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PPC 603 vs. PPC 604
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:39:08 +0100
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- The Digital Nomad wrote:
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- > Odd H. Sandvik (oddhs@sn.no) wrote:
- > : 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.
- >
- > Umm, you mean to tell me that PPC isn't even 64bit??
- > whattaripoff...jeesh..wassupwitalladat... Hmmmphf... Oh well...go
- > figure.. L8a
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- What the heck do you need 64bit dataregisters for anyway????
- It's good enough to have 64bit bus, I think...
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