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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Message-ID: <Dny169.BJH@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <19960307.41C900.103A8@an168.du.pipex.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:01:20 GMT
- X-News-Software: Ameol32
-
- > Yes, but many of the Amiga's best applications are no longer in active
- > development, and in almost all cases source code for them is not freely
- > available.
-
- Without a significant number of native PPC Amiga apps, I see little point
- at all in doing a PPC Amiga - except to run a different os :-(
-
- > can come later - surely the aim should be to get as many applications
- > working (if slowly, initially) as soon as possible.
-
- Of course. But if a PPC running predominantly 680x0 software through
- emulation doesn't outperform the 680x0 code running on a real 040/060
- chip, what's the point in going to PPC anyway? I guess the major
- performance boost of having the OS in PPC code might counter the slow
- speed of 680x0 emulation.
-
- waffle waffle bullshit bullshit
-
- joly-bum
-