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Re: AROS68K and the Freescale Coldfire CPU
« on: January 16, 2011, 03:25:11 PM »
I recall reports of Elbox's "Dragon" which ran @266mhz effectively being about the speed of a 40mhz 68040 in real-world tests due to compatibility trapping, etc.

IOW, coldfire ain't gonna happen for the Amiga.

Not at a speed that makes any sense.

Frankly what I'd like to see is something like taking a single-core Atom or Geode and running a virtualized 68k CPU with JIT on it on an Amiga accelerator card.  Although I'd wager interfacing a virtual CPU to real hardware in that circumstance would be a nightmare to attempt.
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