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- From: bruce@pages.com(Bruce Henderson)
- Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com>
- Sender: bruce@pages.com
- Organization: Banzai Research Institute
- References: <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:13:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
- >>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90 Mips,
- >>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz. Here's the
- >>
- >>Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between
- >>Apple/IBM, right? I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040
- >>emulation... wow...
- > Yeah, someone mentioned this to me at the last hAng meeting. Now, I'm
- > no processor architecture wiz, but it sounds like complete B.S. to me.
- >
-
-
- No. It is for real. I have specs and docs on that chip, I have had a hands on
- live demo of it running the Mac OS. It is for real. I wanted NeXT to talk to
- them, but they (NeXT) has there hands full at the moment. This chip can do all
- of this because it has loadable microcode. So you write microcode that
- emulates the 486 instruction set, or the SPARC instruction set... You name it.
-
- This thing is very nifty
-
- Bruce
-