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- From: uwek@baugi.ifi.uio.no (Uwe Sigurd Valentin Kubosch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: PPC Accelerators
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:31:46 +0100
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- >I was thinking that it would be a great feature if they could sell the
- >PPC board seperately (public version), but with the ability to add on
- >an 030/040/060 CPU daughter board. This would permit full software
- >compatibility as far as CPU is concerned at likely better speeds than
- >could be emulated through PPC emulation software.
-
- Since the emulation is said to be as fast as a 040@25MHz, there is
- little point in adding another processor. Adding a 060 would
- make it very expensive, without adding THAT much speed.
-
- >I had heard rumor that an 030/040 might be included on the board as a
- >standard and that all 680x0 code would be piped to that CPU by the PPC
- >for true handling. This is a great idea as well, but it would be great
- >if the end-user could select which CPU they wanted (030/040/060) and
- >at what speeds, unless this would cause problems with the basic PPC
- >Accelerator.
-
- Where have you heard that? What we KNOW is that emulation is in
- the works, and it offers resonable performance at a minimal price.
-
- >In the end, both of these ideas I hope are being looked into by Phase 5.
- >a) Daughter board card for 680x0 (030/040/060) CPU at variable speeds.
- >b) Ability for the PPC CPU to pass-through 680x0 code to the 680x0 CPU
- > on the (daughter) board for faster execution.
-
- ...and of cource you want this at an affordable price. Yeah, right...
-
-
- donV
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