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- From: wfblan@netcom.com (Wells Fargo Bank)
- Subject: Re: Motorola pricelist (was RE: CPU MHz in A1200+)
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- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:07:42 GMT
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-
- IO92257@MAINE.MAINE.EDU wrote:
- : I just had a absolutely STUNNING jump of logic, reading this
- : thread. Us consumers pay a lot of money (700 bucks?) for
- : a decent chip one year, only to see it have a 3rd of that
- : value the next year. Why can't we have a OS that is able
- : to use banks of old CPUs in parallel? I'm sorry, but this
- : cannot be that hard to do. I think the lack of multi-CPU
- : OS'es and multi CPU system boards is directly related to
- : some evil scheme by Intel...
- : It HAS to be true. :)
- : -StrangeBrew
-
- HERE HERE!!
-
- I was uplifted by the rumors a while back of two different companies (one
- unfortunetly famous for vapour-ware) developing Multi-CPU boards for Amigas.
-
- This IS the way for the future. And if for no other reason, to give our
- old CPUs a home as a Co-Processor of sorts.
-
- I love my CSA Derringer accelerator board because it goes half-way to this
- by at least making my older 68000 CPU available for compatbility reasons.
- True, it can't be accesses as a Co-processor or Parallell Processor while
- the 68030 is being used, but I have the use of my old CPU still. The next
- step would be to make the CPU useable WHILE the 68030 is being used, in
- whatever manner it can be used.
-
- As you say, "I'm sorry, but this cannot be that hard to do."!!
-
- Other than Dave Haynie (I believe it was) saying this was next to impossible,
- I have heard no other argument against its viability. And for some reason I
- feel that Dave (it it was even him) may have misunderstood, or something.
- I think he was saying that a TOTAL re-work of the Amiga-OS, etc would have to
- be done to have a Multi-CPU Mother Board, etc, which is years away, if at all.
- But I, and the previous person, are refering to add-on cards that could have
- the necessary logic onboard to work with the OS as it currently stands. For
- the 2nd CPU to be transparent to the Amigas OS. It can be done.
-
- How about it developers. Who will be the first?
-
- Rob Bamford
- (wfblan@netcom.com)
-