RE: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead

[Brad DeJong <1796@mn3.lawson.lawson.com>]

And I'll be *very* surprised if there isn't a significant performance   
penalty when running a non-native binary, not to mention obscure bugs.   
 It wouldn't surprise me if they did a 68K binary on PPC type emulation   
instead of direct binary compatibility.

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From:  Chris Schumann
Sent:  Monday, January 18, 1999 12:53 PM
To:  tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com; Brad DeJong
Subject:  Re: [TCLUG:3420] MIPS is dead

   

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 Brad_C_Elkin@notes.seagate.com wrote:
> Also, I heard MERCED will be a variation on VLIW. Can anyone   
confirm/deny?
> The implication is that it's getting too expensive to get performance   
by
> bumping the clock rate up..

I've read that Merced is going to be binary compatible with HP-PA,   
meaning
they will be able to run HP-UX with a "simple" port of that. I imagine
they (HP and Intel) will also be working on x86 emulation.

Chris Schumann <whizkid@dwave.net>


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