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- From: amann@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alpha for A4000/3000 ???
- Date: 24 Mar 96 02:02:21 +1100
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- On 08-Mar-96 04:54:25 Bernhard Fastenrath <fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de> purged his mind of its opinions of Re: Alpha for A4000/3000 ???...
- >Dobbin Burkhart (dobbin@tvdcomm.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
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- >: At the end of an Amiga article in AV/Video they mention that Draco
- >: is making a Alpha processor board for 4000/3000 Amigas !
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- >: Is this for real ? What would one use for executables ?
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- >AmigaOS 4.x will probably be a RISC OS, not necessarily limited to PPC.
- >They might buy a source license and compile for ALPHA ;-)
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- >: Are we talking WIN/NT and Alpha apps under NT or have they got a cross
- >: compiler for 680x0 to Alpha ? Any one heard about this ?
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- >Isn't the ALPHA extremly good at emulating other processors?
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- Well one CPU can't be better than another at emulating any other processor -
- however since it's got alot of power there, programs written for an OS running
- on it, will be able to emulate another OS at a reasonable speed.
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