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- From: Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 08:04:26 +0200
- Organization: Sapiens Technologies
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- Wessel Dankers wrote:
- > 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.
- >
-
- that is D most absurd idea in history!!!! you ever thought of the price of even A1200 with a configuration
- like that?! it's not just putting a cpu but a whole board inside, and besides that idea will never work,
- mixing 2 instructions sets that are executing under one OS written in PPC code will never work properly,
- especially if run under 2 different cpu's. that would require a whole new OS for the Amiga which supports
- multi-processing. i'm not sure Escom with its limited resources could provide such OS before the end of the
- century. the way to go is to write an actual translator that'll do the job.
-
- Avi Lev.
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