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Offline darksun9210

Re: AmigaOS 4.0 68k
« on: October 24, 2003, 01:52:00 PM »
cold fire upgrade? wtf?

it has been my general thought (please correct if wrong) that the coldfire line was a cut down (CRISC)version of the full 68k line, so being able to at 200Mhz is all well and good for coldfire native applications, but when it comes to emulating instructions the chip doesn't have, if you have to waste 20 clock cycles to emulate 1 68040 cycle, then its like "and the point is?" if you are going to use an accelerator upgrade that emulates a 680x0. why not use something with a decent instruction list and a good turn of speed.

(i don't know what speeds the coldfire line runs at i only picked those numbers out of the air)
(all thoughts and comments are strictly my own as no-one wants to pay the license fee)

A500, A600, A1200x3, A2000, A3000, A4000 & a CD32.
and probably just like the rest of you, crates full of related "treasure" for the above XD