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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« on: October 27, 2007, 12:37:07 AM »
Why are people drolling over chips for low end embedded systems?
 

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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 02:32:11 PM »
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@downix:
The reason for Minimig is that the hardware is dying physicaly. And there is no new ones made.
Software emulation won't give cycle accurency that demos & games need.

As for CPUs, ARM is trigger happy litigator. I would be careful about being dependent on them.


Hardware doesn't provide an advantage when it comes to cycle exact emulation, all hardware can do is provide a speedup. If you can't model something accurately in software, hardware certainly can't come to the rescue as the model has to come first.