| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 21 Jun 2001 at 16:01:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Whinge,whinge!!!! |
hi,
> Why did Amiga choose another CPU? Because PPC was too contended
> already. If you pick PPC, you end up having to resolve the "war". If
> you pick another CPU, the war dies off without effort. Truth.
eh? If Amiga had chosen the PPC *and* taken care of the operating system
themselves then both PowerUP and WarpUP would have been left out in the
cold (as an official PPC AmigaOS kernel would have been done)
> the Amiga Format with a letter from Petro in it) that they are not
> officially supporting the PowerPC as the future Amiga processor
> anymore.
yeh, great words....and what DID they do? nothing, absolutely nothing. so
they damaged the market for nothing but hot air and a quick sell off a
couple of years later
> You could say that you don't use PowerUP, so how would you know if it
> was less stable?
i do use PowerUP (well, its applications anyway ;-) )
I know of people who use PowerUP only and cannot get their BVision to work
under AmigaOS...interesting eh? ;-)
> Alan Buxey, you are in fact a complete moron. Are you suggesting to me
> that WarpUP does *not* install a LoadSeg() patch to load the new AHF
> binaries? Because if it doesn't, I fail to see how it'd work. As for "exec
> hacks" - what's the difference between looking and then parsing an .elf
> file (which WarpUP also supports), or skimming through some hunks
> for the right ones?
WarpUP only supports the .elfs when you've used some tool such as
PPCInstall. The WarpUP binary format gets the 68k to loadseg the fattened
PPC code hunk
> As more and more of the OS is replaced by PPC modules, you won't need
> the 68k emulation to be so fast (and it is, by all accounts, pretty much
> nearing 68060 speeds right now, although you don't see any of it in the
> public release). A 240MHz 603e can run many things many times faster
> than a 68060 - and MorphOS supports running WarpUP stuff too with
> the same "hacks" that you say PowerUP uses to run on your system.
I know - as I've run WarpUP/Warp3D stuff under MorphOS - however, I'd
really like to see the 240MHz 32bit 603e run 060 code as fast as an
060...especially with the ~20Mb/s memory BUS of the BlizzardPPC card
alan
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