Re: I'm sick of subject lines about that stupid apple storm thing

[mh001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Matthew W. Hacker)]

In <cf9LGvS00YUoMZhVIv@andrew.cmu.edu> Gregory Ross Thompson <gregt+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
>> I was reading in Byte (I think) of a new micro-programmable RISC
>> chip which could emulate a fast 486 (and run slightly faster) when
[stuff deleted]

>  Hmm.  I haven't read this article, so I'm simply speculating here.
>I find it VERY hard to believe that someone has made a general purpose
>microprogrammed RISC that is faster at being a 486 than a 486 itself.
Yeah, me too.

>  Next, if you can make a general purpose chip that can emulate an
>'816, then you can ALWAYS make a dedicated '816 that'll be faster.
>Why not just do that?
Ahh.  But if you make a chip that can emulate several other chips
then the market is a lot larger...  It might be worth it to make a
chip that does several other processors.  The fact that it could
(maybe) also do a 65816 is jsut a bonus for us Apple types.


It would be neat, though, wouldn't it?

-- 
Matthew W. Hacker                      mh001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
                                       AppleII forever!