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- From: wsldanke@cs.ruu.nl (Wessel Dankers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: 14 Mar 96 20:49:18 +0100
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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- Everybody buys an Amiga and after some amount of time decides to buy an
- accelerator. The old chip remains in the computer doing nothing because
- it's surface-mounted.
-
- Now my idea is: why not ship PPC machines with an additional (not too
- expensive) '030 or so and let that chip handle the 680x0 code? Heck, you
- could even let them run at the same time! No more emulator trouble, and
- reasonable speed.
-
- And if you think some program is well written and could work through an
- emulator, it should be possible to let an FX!64-kind-of-thing handle such
- programs.
-
- ExecBase->ThisTask et alii should then of course point to the task the '030
- is running :-)
-
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