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- From: douyang@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Darwin Ouyang)
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
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- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 19:45:22 GMT
- References: <4ipnjl$2jm@sinsen.sn.no> <1459.6660T1268T1069@cs.ruu.nl> <4jdlrm$drk@agate.berkeley.edu> <Dp8CMC.154@csc.liv.ac.uk>
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- In article <Dp8CMC.154@csc.liv.ac.uk>, S.E. Morris <fish@csc.liv.ac.uk> wrote:
- >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.
-
- Actually, that is not completely true of the P6 series Intel CPUs.
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- The internal architecture of the chip is quite elegant.
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- The instruction set still is a kludge though. However Intel can change
- that now that the x86 line is essentially a RISC core executing micro-ops.
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- I wonder what they'll do with the P7?
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- Darwin Ouyang
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