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- From: Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.054141.25635@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:41:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.141259.6424@bilpin.co.uk> Mark Allerton,
- mark@bilpin.co.uk writes:
- >My understanding is that the PowerPC is in fact a 32-bit CPU, with
- >32-bit registers, that can be scaled up to 64 bits, and that in a
- >64-bit version (*not* the 601) then programs could switch between
- >32-bit mode (the default, most likely) and 64-bit mode. This
- >switching will be available as a user (rather than supervisor) mode
- >instruction.
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- Bletch!
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- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> "Support HAVOC!"
- Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Australia
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