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Given the choice of CPUs at the moment, much as I hate to say it, x86 seems to be the only real choice for a high-performance CPU.
I guess it's because you don't need the x86 instructions anymore, or it's the multi core that makes the 'immediate' feeling possible.
I recently bought an i5 pc and for the first time since I swapped DOS for windows 95 I got the feeling the GUI isn't a buggering resource hog anymore, considering both Linux and Windows (I never was happy with the performance of X11 either until now).
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Re: Do you approve of PPC (in some form) as the future of Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2010, 09:51:04 PM »
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someone here hate the idea amiga to be a pc. the amiga of 25 years ago wasn't because had its peculiarities.
the amiga (one) of today is already a pc.
it's a simple pc nor more nor less than an x86 one.
it has its cpu, ram, bus, hdd and so on.
it hasn't a x86 cpu but in the rest it's about to be the same.
i think if aos would go x86 it'll be only faster faster faster.
The principles of north- and southbridge are in principle still inferior to a theretical modern day custom chipset design.
More flexible, yes, but also bottlenecks. Pumping up the bitrates still to overcome its deficiencies. Not something a tech head can be enthusiastic about.
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