----- Original Message ----- From: "Phoebus Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [ql-developers] K68 Core > > And it will take sometime until you get one if any :-) > Nonetheless, the problem is that a MIPS won't do us (QLers) any good for a > machine for the future, unless of course the whole OS is ported and then > again we could use anything in that case even a x86 class CPU (brrrrrr) > > Phoebus
MIPS is awesome architecture and mora than capable of emulating 68K at decent speeds. Mazbe not at 5407 speeds, but probably close. Besides, at this point having Linux option seems more important than being merely QL-compatible. I even think it should be possible to make some simple recompiler that would compile 68000 code for MIPS. Yeah, you could do it for Intel, but here the whole machine could churn less than 15W. Only Intel-compatible platform that could do something like that is VIA C3-Eden, which is crap performance-wise. (I have tried it).
