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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.170225.10688@metrosoft.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 17:02:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
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- Organization: Metrosoft
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- In article <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com> bruce@pages.com(Bruce
- Henderson) writes:
- > 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.
- > 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.
- >
-
- Wow! Loadable microcode on a micro! Flashbacks to my super-mini days. Now
- we can have some *real* fun... :-)
-
- Gordon
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