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- From: cbrown@armltd.co.uk (Chris Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The PowerAmiga..
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 18:50:11 +0100
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Limited
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- In article <601.6676T37T2745@prometheus.hol.gr>,
- Touliatos Panagiotis <Slayerthegreat@prometheus.hol.gr> wrote:
- >On 09-Apr-96 20:21:04 Lars Nelson Wrote:
- >
- >>Obviously the CPU for the Power Amiga is 64 bit. The PhaseV accelerator
- >>boards are completely 64-bit, and I'm making an assumption that the Power
- >>Amiga will be also. That is of course unlike the stupid Pentiums using
- >>64-bit CPU with 32-bit bus bottlenecks.
- >you are wrong , pentiums are 32-bit cpu's with 64-bit data bus.
-
- He's also wrong about the PPC, unless the PowerAmiga uses a PPC 620
- straight off (not likely I feel). The PPC 604 is a 32 bit CPU. There
- aren't that many 64 bit CPUs around. The most prominent ones being
- probably Aplha and MIPS R4x00. Pentiums and the P6, as you say, are 32
- bit processors.
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