Bloody hell, I never thought i'd see the day!!
Now, about this is 050, what is it? I must have missed it, I know they were going for an 070, but I though machines released before that would have a real 060?
Who is your 050 and what does he do?
Plans have changed. The '070 was going to be faster than an '060 per clock in every way and superscalar. Trying to build one that is not superscalar is plenty challenging enough. The N68050 is the precursor to the N68070. It should be about as fast as an '060 per clock but uses other techniques to achieve that.
The primary feature of the N68050 is that it can decode a pair of opcodes and figure out if they can be combined into one opcode. Some combinations are pairs that result in a 3 operand opcode such as a register move followed by an add to the same destination register, a forward branch over a single operation converts to a predicated operation, and so on. This feature is called opcode fusion.
