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- From: allenp@nima.eecs.berkeley.edu (Allen Pouratian)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 09:24:06 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
- Message-ID: <4jdlrm$drk@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- >>>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.
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- Why not use the 80x86 line of processors so long as we're migrating to
- another instruction set? The Gemulator written for clones (and needing only
- Atari ST ROMS installed on an expansion card) allow a 486DX33 to emulate
- in software an 8Mhz Atari ST at FULL speed. Atari TT speed emulations
- (33 Mhz 68030) are possible with Pentium processors.
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- Full 680x0 binary compatibiliy. And the work is already done. Why not go
- for the LARGEST market? I'd bet my eyeteeth most ex-Amiga users are clone
- users right now. I'm assuming the work to allow 680x0 binary compatibility
- with the new RISC hardware involves either:
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- 1) Licencing the translator from Apple (PowerPC)
- 2) Licencing the translator from HP (HP-PA RISC)
- 3) Implementing a hardware instruction translator
- for whatever chip we're migrating to
-
- Why not move to the Clones? We could have minimum A500 performance on all
- 486's in all it's wonders AND the have the world's largest software library
- and userbase.
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- Respectfully,
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- Allen Pouratian
- UC Berkeley
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