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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Message-ID: <If=KiZO00Vp=IK8bBZ@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:22:45 -0500
- From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
- In-Reply-To: <tim-141292101456@129.38.222.43>
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- Faisal Nameer Jawdat (fj05@andrew.cmu.edu) write:
- > 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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- Whoops, just checked that one. Wrong. Just very easy to port/emulate
- software on it. But this porting/emulation capability is optimized
- for the vax/vms instruction set, so advantages might not be as great
- on other architectures...
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