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- From: wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl (Wessel Dankers)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 27 Mar 96 21:08:21 +0100
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- Fabio Bizzetti <bizzetti@mbox.vol.it> wrote:
-
- >>>HP-PA due to the optimal relationship HP and Commodore had, and due to its
- >>>extremely fast FloatingPoint capabilities, and due to its upgradability
- >>>(HP-PA is a family of processors, all damn faster than most other RISCs),
- >>>due to the unique possibility to customize also the CPU (as HP offers).
-
- >>Great idea! When the AmigaOS is fully portable, you're welcome to USE the
- >>HP-PA family. But that won't be for a while! Right now it's more
- >>important to use the CPU which we can get up and running IN THE LEAST
- >>AMOUNT OF TIME, and that's the PowerPC, because no other CPU has had the
- >>tools for migrating from a 680x0 platform developed to the same extent.
-
- > HP-PA had. Apollo systems where 680x0 based.
- > You're wrong again. Congratulations.
-
- Fabio's right:
- I use both Apollo and HP-PA systems: they use the same executables.
-
- But: (it may very well be the compiler) some test program ran only _*four*_
- times the speed on a HP-PA, compared to my /020@15MHz/! Otherwise those machines
- are quite fast, though.
-
- --
- Wessel Dankers _\\|//_ <wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl>
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