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- In article <4jdlrm$drk@agate.berkeley.edu>,
- allenp@nima.eecs.berkeley.edu (Allen Pouratian) writes:
- >>>>Great idea! When the AmigaOS is fully portable, you're welcome to USE the
- >>>>HP-PA family. But that won't be for a while! Right now it's more
- >>>>important to use the CPU which we can get up and running IN THE LEAST
- >>>>AMOUNT OF TIME, and that's the PowerPC, because no other CPU has had the
- >>>>tools for migrating from a 680x0 platform developed to the same extent.
- >
- >Why not use the 80x86 line of processors so long as we're migrating to
- >another instruction set? The Gemulator written for clones (and needing only
- >Atari ST ROMS installed on an expansion card) allow a 486DX33 to emulate
- >in software an 8Mhz Atari ST at FULL speed. Atari TT speed emulations
- >(33 Mhz 68030) are possible with Pentium processors.
-
- After the 8086 the entire 80x86 series became an endless round of cludge
- ontop of cludge. Besides, why bother migrating from an end-of-the-line CISC
- series to *another* end-of-the-line CISC series?? If we have to migrate
- (and let's face it - we do!) then we might as well step up to technology
- with is likely to be around for at least another decade.
-
-
- >Full 680x0 binary compatibiliy. And the work is already done. Why not go
- >for the LARGEST market? I'd bet my eyeteeth most ex-Amiga users are clone
- >users right now. I'm assuming the work to allow 680x0 binary compatibility
- >with the new RISC hardware involves either:
- >
- > 1) Licencing the translator from Apple (PowerPC)
- > 2) Licencing the translator from HP (HP-PA RISC)
- > 3) Implementing a hardware instruction translator
- > for whatever chip we're migrating to
- >
- >Why not move to the Clones? We could have minimum A500 performance on all
- >486's in all it's wonders AND the have the world's largest software library
- >and userbase.
-
- Why not just buy a PC, if that's what you want? Otherwise - why try and
- turn the Amiga into one?
-
- >Respectfully,
- >
- >Allen Pouratian
- >UC Berkeley
- >
- >
- >
-
- -FISH- ><>
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