RISC-Amiga ???
12-Aug-92 02:50:44
Sb: #26595-RISC-Amiga ???
Fm: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
To: Fernando Cassia 73000,106
After the introduction of the 68040, I'm inclined to believe that the
future belongs to CISC processors with RISC-like characteristics.
As for existing technology, I'm highly impressed with the latest
Transputer CPU (which is RISC). It has a form of piplining that I've never
heard of in a sinlge-chip MPU, and the
multitasking/multiprocessing/communications built into the chip seem to cry
for an Amiga OS conversion to it, for the next big leap forward; From the
Byte article I read on it, it seems to have a sophisticated IPC scheme
(packet-based). It almost sounds like the Amiga Kernel implemented in
hardware, only an order of magnitude more sophisticated and robust.
Such an adaptation would not only measure up with state-of-the-art, but
surely put the Amiga on the cutting edge.