CompuServe Messages

You're confusing the main processor (CPU) with the rest of the chips in the machine Presuming you were designing a new Amiga, and wanted to use a different CP…there's no intrinsic reason why you couldn't keep the rest of the chips in today's Amiga. Of course, since the CPU would be different than the current Amiga's CPU…none of the current software would work in it….including the operating system. Now it is possible for one type of machine to emulate another machine…such as the original 'Amiga Transformer' software. It allowed the Amiga to run code designed for the Intel processors (MS-DOS) to operate using the Amiga's 68000 CPU. It did this by software only, it read the Intel code, annd then executed 68000 code that performed the same function. Because of all the translation involved….it ran sMS-DOS software significantly slower on a 7MHz 68000 than the same software ran on a 5MHz Intel 8088/86.