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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #14 from previous page: April 22, 2002, 12:44:34 PM »
Hmm, that makes one wonder it it wasn't all planned to make Amiga go down.
 

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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #15 on: April 22, 2002, 01:22:26 PM »
ohh nnoo...
Conspiracy... so Motorola did way back then, start to plan the amiga downfall...
Lets hope not...
But ooh my, they did inhibited the MAC in reacing its full potential... what will this do to amiga...

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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2002, 01:42:50 PM »
I've just been thinking - so please correct me if I am wrong.... If Apple have PPC pretty much to themselves - and we wont get much of a looking....


If X86 chips are cheaper than PPC - and if X86 are just RISC chips that emulate some CISC instructions - is it possible to write Amiga OS so that it only accesses the X86 RISC instructions - and not the CISC ones? Would that provide cheaper, faster more efficient hardware? Of course come future OS's Hardware will become agnostic!!!!


Just a thought - I dont know much about that stuff.
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2002, 03:02:54 PM »
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I've just been thinking - so please correct me if I am wrong.... If Apple have PPC pretty much to themselves - and we wont get much of a looking....


Which was one of the reasons givens for not going for a G4 processor in the AmigaOne: Apple hogs all the top-of-the-range chips.

OTOH, the A1 uses an IBM chip, not Motorola.

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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2002, 03:56:44 PM »
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OTOH, the A1 uses an IBM chip, not Motorola.


Yes! Now we need IBM to lay their nuts on the table and start cranking up Mhz speed. :-o
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2002, 04:02:50 PM »
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So a 2556 Mhz Pentium proccessor ONLY does 3,644,544 Kkeys/sec , while THE LOWERED MHZ PPC AT 1600 Mhz , DOES 16,991,648 Kkeys/sec !! What i can say is that is is like 6 times faser then this stupid Puntium 4.


Nico, don't believe everything you read. you can probebly find some other article that says exactly the opposite... i don't think we can actually know for sure how fast this cpu is, but i don't think the G4 is 7.44 times faster then the P4 Mhz to Mhz.
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2002, 05:06:55 PM »
@bobsonsirjonny

Even if current x86 compatibles are using a reduced instruction set, it is still not a real RISC.

Sure, there has been a significant performance increase when switching to this technique ( just try to compare a 486 120 to a Pentium 120 ), but it is still not optimized for RISC operation. The old instructions are still there. Some of them are just emulated, and some of the are optimized, but as long as it is to be backward compatible it will be slower than PPC and other RISC CPU's. Try running a DivX movie on a Pentium 200 MMX - Impossible! On the other hand, a 206 MHz StrongARM does the job without problems.
Naahh... the 486 to Pentium step was a good idea, and considering the MHz race between AMD and Intel one can get rather decent performance out of it, but it won't las for ever...
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2002, 09:13:16 PM »
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Even if current x86 compatibles are using a reduced instruction set, it is still not a real RISC.


Um, isn't that a paradox? RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computing.

And incidently, AMD processors are FULL RISC processors with extra transitors to emulate x86 instructions. AMD did just release a chip without the x86 emulation.

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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #22 on: April 23, 2002, 11:18:56 AM »
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Um, isn't that a paradox? RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computing.


Yah, Yah, Yah!!! I talked before I thought... Stupid me!!!
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #23 on: April 23, 2002, 11:19:59 AM »
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Re: Motorola's MHz = Mega Hurts ?
« Reply #24 on: April 23, 2002, 12:13:14 PM »
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And incidently, AMD processors are FULL RISC processors with extra transitors to emulate x86 instructions. AMD did just release a chip without the x86 emulation.


you mean the alchemy? that's not a PC class CPU, it's just for PDAs and stuff. i really hope they'll release their hammer CPU in a non-x86 version!
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