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Re: Lightning Fast Amiga?
« on: March 11, 2003, 10:49:38 AM »
Atheist, I feel you're going to be jumped on here. Basically, just reversing the byte order only fixes one relatively small problem. The instructions for the 680x0 processors bear no resemblance to the instructions for the x86, and there is no correspondence between them, so a program written for a 680x0 will not run on a Pentium, no matter how you re-arrange the data.

That's why there are such things as emulators, which read the instructions meant for one processor, and translate them into instructions for another processor. Often they need several instructions on the new processor to do the work that a single instruction did on the original.

In any case, a Pentium P4 @ 2400 MHz is already severely threatened by a G4 @800 MHz. By the time we have 1.3 GHz G4s available, trying to shoehorn a Pentium into an Amiga wil be a waste of effort.

tony