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- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 23:16:19 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- In a message of 19 Mar 96 Wessel Dankers wrote to All:
-
- >> > 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,
-
- WD> I wasn't thinking about an expansion board, but a whole new PPC
- WD> computer.
-
- I believe it was Apple who claimed that a PPC601/66 could *emulate* 680x0
- processors at the speed of about a 68040 at 25 MHz. Including a 68030 on a
- board which already has a PPC601 or PPC604 on it would be quite ridiculous if
- the PPC processor could EMULATE 680x0 code faster than the 68030 could do it in
- hardware.
-
- Grtz John
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