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- From: sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke)
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- Subject: Re: What the new Amiga-OS *must* have
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 02:49:30 +0000
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- On Mon 25-Mar-1996 19:34 Cmarschn wrote:
-
- C> > By inventing a
- C> >new instruction set (one that could easily be converted to 68K, PPC etc.)
- C> and
- C> >having executables with that instruction format, one executable could be
- C> >executed on any processor type provided there is some translation program
- C> >available.
-
- C> Sounds *pretty* slow.
-
- Basically that means recompiling the program every time you run it, something
- like on these old PDP machines where the OS (TOPS?) double-checked the
- executable's file date with the sources before running it, and eventually
- recompiled the program :) But if the code is designed well, this recompilation
- could be quite fast. I have most of my executables crunched with Imploder, and
- decrunching is hardly noticable on a 040. A PPC could do some more work in the
- same time, this code translation sounds like a good idea!
-
- ttyl!
- Matthias
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