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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?
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Date: 7 May 91 07:14:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu's message of 5 May 91 04:02:46 GMT

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
   
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