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In article <1992Nov11.211338.405@pages.com> bruce@pages.com(Bruce Henderson)  
writes:
> In article <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
> >>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90  
Mips,
> >>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz.  Here's the
> >>
> >>Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between 
> >>Apple/IBM, right?  I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040  
> >>emulation... wow...
> > Yeah, someone mentioned this to me at the last hAng meeting.  Now, I'm
> > no processor architecture wiz, but it sounds like complete B.S. to me.
> 
> No.  It is for real.  I have specs and docs on that chip, I have had a hands 
> on live demo of it running the Mac OS. It is for real.  I wanted NeXT to talk 
> to them, but they (NeXT) has there hands full at the moment.  This chip can 
> do all of this because it has loadable microcode.  So you write microcode 
> that emulates the 486 instruction set, or the SPARC instruction set... You 
> name it.
> 
> This thing is very nifty
> 
> Bruce

The strange thing is that this technology isn't even new. Check out
the WISC (Writeable Instruction Set Computers) that have floated
around the FORTH community for more than a decade. Extremely cool, 
and very fast :-) I only hope (like Bruce) this stuff sees 
commercial use.

Kevin
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