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- From: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.155629.22673@dvorak.amd.com>
- Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- References: <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:56:29 GMT
- Lines: 35
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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. 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
-
- Holy Shit!
-
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