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- From: skank@iastate.edu (George L. Hall-Skank)
- Subject: Re: Power-up for AGA Machines! rumour.
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Dec14.185209.1616@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <1992Dec14.214908.615@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <BzA2AI.Hs0@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:32:56 GMT
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- In article <BzA2AI.Hs0@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> cfury@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Chris Fury) writes:
- >22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
- >
- >>And to the alpha processor, it has a rewritable opcode to emulate an 68040
- >>or something like that. So perhaps that is how they pulled running
- >>amigados on the alpha. Of course you would want an os that would run directly
- >>off the risc cpu, ie risc os.
- >
- >
- >That's not really necessary, because it'll be blazing fast anyway.... Besides,
- >all the programs would be written and compiled for a 68000 machine...
- >(ie Dpaint, ProKludge, Final Copy etc...)
- >
- >>Martin
-
- Your're right of course, you don't need a RISC OS to take advantage of
- ALPHA, but think how much faster it would run if you *did* recompile some
- or all of the OS to RISC code! I could be mistaken about this, but ALPHA
- should be able to run both ALPHA-specific code and 68xxx code at the same
- time (using the rewritable opcode stuff).
- --George
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