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Re: Enter the DRAGON
« on: December 17, 2004, 11:31:43 PM »
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I would much rather run tight 680X0 code than PPC code.


Yes, sure... especially since the bloated PPC code runs at a multiple of the speed of the tight 68k code...

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I wonder how much bigger the core exec/kernel OS of the PPC version of AmigaOS is


Exec V50 is written in C, while the original exec was written in 68k assembly... This makes for a lot more difference than 68k vs. PPC code...

If you need to know, the current Exec code is about 300 KB. Of course, a big chunk of this is the emulator (about 50 K). The original exec was some 20 K of code.

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Between 3.9 and 4.0 there shouldn't be many changes that would account for a much larger size, other than the PPC not being as code-efficient a chip as we were lead to believe.


What a nonsense.

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Fair warning: first person to talk about RISC gets slapped.


Just goes to show that you don't have a clue about what you're talking.

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What's even more troubling is the off-the-shelf card approach we see for the video-graphics subsystems on the new "Amigas" or Amiga-like contenders.


LOL, now that was a good one...

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