Michal Warzecha
Posts 209 08 Feb 2016 12:25
| I will tell a liitle more than Gregthe Canuck- Yes and... no :) Apollo is not a Motorola CPU anymore. The true is- it's compatible, and we hope it's 100% compatible. But it's something more, much more than 060. It's faster, smarter, including new memory controller inside, new instructions, new 64bit architecture etc. People get wrong all idea behind that. Many people think it's some kind of emulator, and that's why it's bad. But it's just a CPU, normall CPU builded in, let's name it, test body, because We can name FPGA as test body. Is it worse than original? I think it's not, because Apollo core is many times better than precedessor (060) in almost every cases. If it will be an emultaor- it will be working with, for example, intel CPU inside, and change motorola instructions to intel, than calculate and change once again from intel to motorola- it will be an emulator. Apollo is CPU, not builded in normall CPU factor like Motorola (Freescale) or Intel, but it's done by Apollo team. It's still CPU. Not emulator, not VooDoo magic in plastic case. If someone has a problem with using that- no one will force to do that. I'm happy Apollo and Vampire card are existing. I can now speed up my old Amiga computers with fresh and new Vampire turbo cards aimed with Apollo core (CPU), 128MB of Fast RAM, DIGITAL-VIDEO, RTG, uSD slot and who knows what else Gunnar will fit there in future.
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