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- From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
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- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 19:04:37 GMT
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- Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- wagner@grace.math.uh.edu (David Wagner) writes:
- > This is just my two bits, and it is said in hindsight, but if Apple were
- > to make this kind of arrangement today, I would say that they ought
- > to use the Alpha chip. From what I know of it, (which ain't all that
- > much) it seems ideal for emulations. If it can run OSF and VMS, then
- > (IMHO) it ought to be able to do `Mac' and MC680XX pretty well. Of
- > course then we'd all have to be 64-bit clean, I guess.
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- The Alpha doesn't have to emulate anything to run OSF or VMS because
- unix is hardware independent, while VMS only runs on the VAX
- instruction set, which the Alpha implements a superset of.
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- -- faisal jawdat | "Certainly the game is rigged.
- email: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu | Don't let that stop you;
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