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- From: Jan_Willekens@p12.f202.n281.z2.fidonet
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: The 64-bit CPU by Atari
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- Date: 26 Dec 92 11:21:04 GMT
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- In a message of <Fri 25 Dec 92 10:10>, Len Stys (2:281/202.0) writes:
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- >> Q: Will it be used in a future computer? (non-game console)
- >> A: Its only logical a CPU be used in a computer.
- LS>
- LS> Then why didn't they use it in the Falcon to begin with?
-
- Price. It would have made the Falcon030 much more expensive, I guess.
- Remember, the Falcon030 is a consumer machine for mass market.
-
- LS> Unless it is completely incompatible with it.
-
- I guess it will not be a CPU, but a 'custom chip', a graphics chip
- probably. It being a CPU raises a lot of questions concerning compatibility
- with the MC680xx series. Or it should be a MC680xx compatible CPU.... nah,
- no way! ;-) (if this all is true, of course!)
-
- >> Q: Is it RISC or CISC based?
- >> A: That would be risky to say. (notice the pun :)
- LS>
- LS> I guess it would HAVE to be RISC. But I'm still amazed that Brodie
- LS> gave that much information.
-
- Giving such an answer indicates that it is most likely that it will be a
- CRISC CPU, in which some instructions are (like in RISC CPU's) mapped
- directly into hardware and other ones still have the microcode step. (like
- in CISC CPU's)
-
- Greetings... - Jan -
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