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Article #10661HP-PA and CISC emulation (was Re: Will NeXT survive?)
From: Anton Rang
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 07:14
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 07:14
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In article <8324@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes: >(Does HP-PA do this right now? If so, I am very impressed. I would be >much more impressed if it could also run the large existing libraries >of CISC binaries at full speed, but that would be asking quite a bit >:-) I seem to recall that the high-end HP-PA machines run HP/3000 binaries (under MPE) faster than the HP/3000 series itself ever did. But I could be wrong. I don't know if this is done with a full software emulator, or with a binary->binary translator, etc. Anton +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+----------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison | "VMS Forever!" | +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+----------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!midway!msuinfo!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: HP-PA and CISC emulation (was Re: Will NeXT survive?) Summary: Doesn't it do HP/3000? Message-ID: <RANG.91May7021441@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 7 May 91 07:14:41 GMT References: <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991May1.160128.1367@sono.uucp> <8283@uceng.UC.EDU> <7628@auspex.auspex.com> <8324@uceng.UC.EDU> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu's message of 5 May 91 04:02:46 GMT