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- From: ernie@cs.uwa.oz.au (Ernie ONG)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 04:49:08 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia, Department of Computer Science
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- nyle landas (nyle@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:
- : NeuroMancer (bthompx@es.co.nz) wrote:
- : :
- : : RISC programs take up a lot of room in RAM and HD, I understand. Converting
- : : cisc to risc on-chip is not great in many ways, but does cut down the
- : : storage demands perhaps...
-
- : That hasn't seemed to help the main OSs on the X86 platform. With minimum
- : memory requirments and hard drive space requirments that are rediculous. I
- : won't mention the speicific OSs but I doubt a port of AmigaDos to RISC is
- : going to make it that bloated. Besides I don't think RISC code is all that
- : much bigger than CISC in fact I remember it being discussed here several
- : times.
-
- In fact, RISC code doesn't necessarily always mean bigger code compared
- to CISC code. The ARM chip (Advanced RISC Machine) has very good code
- density. Those familiar with TAOS will know that the TAOS kernel for
- the ARM is a little smaller than that for the 486 by about 3KB from
- memory.
-
- cheers,
- ernie.
-
-
- --
- name: Ernie Ong
- addr: ernie@cs.uwa.edu.au
- mesg: The Acorn Risc PC.
- Get smart and be ARM powered.
-