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Started by steve@nuchat.UUC
Wed, 16 Mar 1988 15:14
MC68030 addvertisement
Author: steve@nuchat.UUC
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 15:14
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 15:14
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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. -- Steve Nuchia | [...] but the machine would probably be allowed no mercy. uunet!nuchat!steve | In other words then, if a machine is expected to be (713) 334 6720 | infallible, it cannot be intelligent. - Alan Turing, 1947
Re: MC68030 addvertisement;really: truth is stranger than marketing
Author: mash@mips.COM (J
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 06:59
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 06:59
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In article <799@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>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...
>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.
Weirdly enough, nothing. Several companies sell software that
lets you run MS/DOS applications, fresh out of the shrink-wrap,
on other CPUs. I've seen them running on 68020s; hence,
a 68020, at least, is "ms-dos compatible"....as are (at least)
Clippers and MIPS R2000s (and surely more). A Turing Machine
is probably "ms-dos compatible" with the right software & peripherals. :-)
--
-john mashey DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
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Re: MC68030 addvertisement
Author: cox@bentley.UUCP
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 20:25
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 20:25
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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). -- ========================================================================== Michael H. Cox ARPA: cox@garage.nj.att.com AT&T Bell Labs UUCP: ihnp4!bentley!cox 184 Liberty Corner Road COMPU$ERVE: 76525,3703 Rm 3N-D04 Warren, NJ 07060 (201) 580-8622 ==========================================================================
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