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- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 07:32:02 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
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- References: <19960307.41C900.103A8@an168.du.pipex.com> <Dny169.BJH@cix.compulink.co.uk><19960308.41E5A8.1098C@an157.du.pipex.com>
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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.
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- >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.
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- >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.
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- >ExecBase->ThisTask et alii should then of course point to the task the '030
- >is running :-)
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- Souns expencive.
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