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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.235103.2722@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <gf_L=Z200Vp=8UNwxz@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:51:03 GMT
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- In <gf_L=Z200Vp=8UNwxz@andrew.cmu.edu> fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:
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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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- Somehow I get the feeling that they had to port the UNIX kernel to
- Alpha before it would run. Hardware independent? Just how would that
- work?
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- The 100 MHz RISC Alpha implements a superset of the VAX (very CISC)
- instruction set? Are you sure of that information?
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