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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Message-ID: <16087@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:03:28 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.204313.29024@rchland.ibm.com> <Bzs3zn.43H.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec24.203452.22045@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- >You could, of course, either emulate these features in software, or
- >modify the basic PowerPC architecture. ...
- >and the second *could* involve extensive modifications to the basic
- >PowerPC architecture and implementations.
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- I'm curious whether such a modified POWER or PowerPC architecture would
- have to differ more from the current architecture than, say, the Intel
- 960 (nine-six-zero) "extended" architecture differs from the 960
- "protected" architecture.
-