ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Doug Dyer) (12/12/90)
Hello. I got that "article not posted" so am trying again. Sorry if two or three of these pop up :) Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 In article <10796@helios.TAMU.EDU> n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) writes: >Dave, if you plug in a card with a CPU into the co-processor board, can you >still use the native processor for "grunt" work... for instance, putting >a '040 board in the A3000, and still use the '030 to help speed up the >machine? >And.... can this be done so that it remains "mostly" compatable with\ >a mojority of software? Would this be a hardware, or software hack to >use both processors together? The A3000 side of things is designed to work this way. If you plug in a Coprocessor board that's also designed to work this way, you'll be able to run both CPUs together efficiently. At that point, actually getting the two of them to work well becomes a software issue, as it is on most machines today that have considered the relatively simple hardware end of the problem. >Raoul Rodriguez -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "I can't drive 55" -Sammy Hagar _________________________________________________________________ Ok, will AmigaOS2.0 do the software bit? Could it use the '030 as a blitter, or schedule work among the cpus? Could all of that be invisible to properly written applications? Just wondering... Doug Dyer -- "I/O's revenge is at hand." - Hennessy & Patterson