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- From: videoking@mbox200.swipnet.se (Johan Otterstrom)
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- Subject: Re: Alpha for A4000/3000 ???
- Date: 23 Mar 96 01:11:22 -500
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- >Michael van Elst wrote:
- >>
- >> fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath) writes:
- >>
- >> >AmigaOS 4.x will probably be a RISC OS, not necessarily limited to PPC.
- >> >They might buy a source license and compile for ALPHA ;-)
- >>
- >> Unlikely. The Alpha will run as a coprocessor to accelerate specific
- >> applications.
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- >I think so too.
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- >>
- >> >Isn't the ALPHA extremly good at emulating other processors?
- >>
- >> No. It is just generally fast, and thus fast when emulating other
- >> processors.
- >>
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- >Actually it is very good emulating because you can reprogram it's microcode.
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- >--
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