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- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Mark Worden upgrading to a 060 instead of PowerPC
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 09:17:55 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
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- Message-ID: <4i8o83$so1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960220162223.624A-100000@scsscsc1.reading.ac.uk> <4h57l1$rc5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca> <4h6hgp$fqo@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <1996Mar5.185907.12755@scala.scala.com>
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- Summary: Compatibility
- Keywords: Look into it more
-
- >In <4h6hgp$fqo@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, kraemer@rzri6f.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
- >>In article <4h57l1$rc5@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca>, mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden) writes:
- >>Although the PPC seems to blow away the 68k stuff I've decided to
- >>upgrade my A3000 with an '060 board for the simple reason that I
- >>don't expect the PPC upgrade boards to work smoothly with all progs
- >>in emulation mode.
- >
- >There's no reason to believe the PPC emulation won't provide a
- >perfectly compatible 68K programming model. What it can't do is match
-
- Mark, I'd say look into the processors more before going out and buying
- one. With the 060, it can't emulate an 030. It is better related to an 040
- and using the 040.library and 060.library software optimized for those
- processors should work fine. If not, then they could run slow even
- though the processor is an 060 though with some software you will get the
- increase anyways just not as much as if the code was optimized for the
- 060 and right now, not too many Amiga software/apps are.
-
- With the PPC upgrade, you can at least look forward to somekind of 68k
- emulation to get some software working plus take advantage of the new
- software coming out.. with th 060, you are stuck with the 68k line of
- software.
-
- -=*George*=-
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