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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Alpha for A4000/3000 ???
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 10:58:07 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath) writes:
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- >AmigaOS 4.x will probably be a RISC OS, not necessarily limited to PPC.
- >They might buy a source license and compile for ALPHA ;-)
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- Unlikely. The Alpha will run as a coprocessor to accelerate specific
- applications.
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- >Isn't the ALPHA extremly good at emulating other processors?
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- No. It is just generally fast, and thus fast when emulating other processors.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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