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From: cox@bentley.UUCP (MH Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MC68030 addvertisement
Message-ID: <1088@bentley.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 20:25:26 GMT
References: <799@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: cox@bentley.UUCP (59463-MH Cox)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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In article <799@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP writes:
>Maybe I should just call motorola abou this, but what the heck...
>
>I saw this double-page add for the '030, and burried in the
>copy was the phrase  'unix and ms-dos compatible' or something
>like that.
>
>Well, that's interesting, says I.  I wonder what it means.
>
>Not having seen any discussion of a 8088 emulation mode in
>the '030 architecture I thought I'd ask if anyone has any
>idea what those marketeers have been smoking.

I think their referring to the PC software emulation program
that will allow you to reduce the '030 to the speeds of an IBM AT
(wow! what a feature :-).  I'm not sure if it emulates a PC (8088)
or AT (80286), but it does simulate the entire hardware architecture
(video display, I/O ports, etc).

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