Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!vaxf.iastate.edu!XGR39 From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Re: NeXT emulation? Message-ID: <1991May5.195521.3687@news.iastate.edu> Date: 5 May 91 19:55:21 GMT References: <91108.003225JBK4@psuvm.psu.edu> <20877@cbmvax.commodore.com>,<1991May5.160320.24589@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 28 In article <1991May5.160320.24589@wehi.dn.mu.oz>, baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >In article <20877@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Well, since the processors are compatible, if you threw out the NeXT OS, ran >> the Amiga OS on the NeXT hardware, all non-graphics operations would go about >> as fast as on a normal '040 based Amiga. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > >AHA!!! WE GOT HIM!!! DAVE ADMITS THAT AN 040 AMIGA IS ON ITS WAY!!! >I nearly got excited when he let slip with the crack about the last time >the chip boys knocked together a custom chip for testing.... But this is >the real thing! Don't get too excited. There have been hints that an '040 board for the A3000 has been in devlopment for some time. When the A3000 first came out, Dave mentioned a number of times that the A3000 was actually designed with an '040 in mind. As for Dave's remarks about the 'chip guys' producing revisions to a custom chip, Dave did not reveal anything here, either, because this could have meant anything. Remember, there are six custom chips in the A3000, in addition to the Big Three. He could simply have been mentioning a slight revision to one of these added custom chips. > >Regards Alan