[ucc] Crusoe

[David Bennett]

Morning,

>From talk here...  Being an embeded company and all :)  The crusoe still
uses way to much power to be really useful in palmtop devices.  It uses
something like 10x as much as a strongarm.  Stromarm's are pretty neat :)

Unless your planning on embeddeding an x86 processor of some sort (in which
case your silly anyway :) then the crusoe is not very useful.

Note as well that the speeds they quote, ie: 700Mhz, is for running their
internal instructions, not the equivilant x86 speed (or 68k).

Fluff!
David.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian McKellar [mailto:yakk-ucc at yakk.net.au]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:25 PM
> To: Shay Telfer
> Cc: ucc at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [ucc] Crusoe
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:18:05PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote:
> > >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 :)
> > 
> > Actually, it would be better if it could do PowerPC (given 
> that Apple 
> > hasn't shipped a 68K based Mac for a few years now)... But 
> if it can 
> > handle Motorola instruction sets maybe it'll wind up in 
> Palm devices 
> > :)
> 
> My palmIII runs nicely at 16mhz... 700mhz would sure be nice :)
> 
> Ian
> 
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