Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Subject: Re: Computer Architecture question Message-ID: <1991May9.070349.15151@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA References: <3310.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 07:03:49 GMT Lines: 16 jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes: >> an 88K processor in a computer that is based on the 68K and expect it > Who knows, who cares. Use the thing as a co-processor, like they > use those Inmos chips. This generally works OK for special purpose jobs, but not very well for general purpose work, i.e. you'd like your OS to also go fast, but it can't because its running on the host processor. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "Lay me place and bake me pie, I'm starving for me gravy... Leave my shoes and door unlocked, I might just slip away - hey - just for the day."