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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

Holy Shit!

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