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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: VISC - A way to speed up moto cisc mpu's?
Message-ID: <1991May23.210000.8152@kithrup.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 21:00:00 GMT
References: <1991May15.110000.25800@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> <1991May15.183328.22820@kithrup.COM> <13445@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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In article <13445@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>Why not just build a multiprocessor system with completely different
>processors?  I.e., ship a system that contains, say, one 68040 and one
>or more 88x00s.  There is no particular reason that the O/S cannot run
>the proper binary on the proper CPU automatically.

Because then you wouldn't get any speedup on your old programs.  I guess.
Historically, such ventures have not done too well.  (Anyone remember the
machine, many years ago, that had a 68k, a 6502, a Z80, and possibly one or
two other processors?  Dimension, mayhap?  Anyway, it failed.)

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