dose anyone rember system 7 on windows
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I know that the original PowerPC (601 if I am not mistaken) was developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola to run both x86 and 68k apps, while making a new RISC core which would run its own code (native PowerPC code).willhart wrote:Rumored somewhere (don't remember where) that the G6 would have full POWER4 integration and could run PowerPC and x86 side by side. Can I get a validation on this?
The PowerPC 615 was to have an x86 decoder built-in the chip. However, performance didn't match the expectations, IIRC. I can't remember anything like a 68k decoder built-in. Apple/Connectix DR 68k emulators were fast enough and needed to be fully integrated into the system anyway.PPC_Digger wrote:I know that the original PowerPC (601 if I am not mistaken) was developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola to run both x86 and 68k apps, while making a new RISC core which would run its own code (native PowerPC code).
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[/quote]CFran2 wrote:Aint u ever heard of Megaflops?? Apple even used it in ads. i think its the number of operations a secondIf hertz are so relative in processors, why don't we use a different system?"
Megaflops are units used to measure how many Floting-Point operation a CPU does per second. Another example is MIPS, the number (in millions) of instructions per second, however it is less accurate when comparing CPUs as different as Pentium/Athlon and PowerPC, since their instructions are extremely different from each other.