[ucc] Crusoe

Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Jan 21 12:47:25 WST 2000


> On Jan 21, Teik Oh scrawled :

> > > Everyone that hasn't seen this on Slashdot should have a look.
> > > If they release code-morphing for Alpha as well as x86 I'd have
> > > to get a box running one:
> > 
> > Uhhh, why..?
> > What's on Alpha that you absopositively need to run..?
> > 
> A nice instruction set?  Good karma, you know.

Supposedly Crusoe would be better at Alpha than x86 because the 
Alpha instruction set is closer to its own (more RISC-ish?)
And if the Crusoe could do Motorola 68K as well then I could run MacOS 
and my assembly language course might even have been useful :)

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