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From: eachus@linus.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: RISC Amiga
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Date: 1 Nov 90 19:06:55 GMT
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     But why do any emulation at all.  The 3000 has a Co-processor
slot, and any GOOD board designer should be able to build an
i860/88000/AMD29000/MIPS/you choose board that slots in there.  The
hard part would be to modify AmigaDOS to recongize which processor a
task should run on.

     Of course it would be easier to build a board with a mailbox to
talk to AmigaDOS and run Unix on your i860 board.  Add an ethernet
connector and support for a (separate) internal hard disk and it might
be a pretty nice accelerator board.  But then again it is like some of
the recipies I heard for converting a 64 to a 128 first carefully
remove the power cord and save it...

    Seriously with an Ethernet board my Amiga is a very nice machine,
and when I need more than a 68030's worth of cruch power I do an
rlogin or an rsh.  (I actually have aliases that do one or the other.)
If I need a huge number cruncher box, I don't use a workstation.  (Or,
more correctly I use a workstation to display the results.)  It might
be nice to have an iPSC/2, or a MIPS R2000, or an Encore Multimax in
my Amiga, but I don't notice that they are not there now.
--

					Robert I. Eachus

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