steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) (03/16/88)
Maybe I should just call motorola abou this, but what the heck... I saw this double-page add for the '030, and burried in the copy was the phrase 'unix and ms-dos compatible' or something like that. Well, that's interesting, says I. I wonder what it means. Not having seen any discussion of a 8088 emulation mode in the '030 architecture I thought I'd ask if anyone has any idea what those marketeers have been smoking. -- Steve Nuchia | [...] but the machine would probably be allowed no mercy. uunet!nuchat!steve | In other words then, if a machine is expected to be (713) 334 6720 | infallible, it cannot be intelligent. - Alan Turing, 1947
cox@bentley.UUCP (MH Cox) (03/18/88)
In article <799@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP writes: >Maybe I should just call motorola abou this, but what the heck... > >I saw this double-page add for the '030, and burried in the >copy was the phrase 'unix and ms-dos compatible' or something >like that. > >Well, that's interesting, says I. I wonder what it means. > >Not having seen any discussion of a 8088 emulation mode in >the '030 architecture I thought I'd ask if anyone has any >idea what those marketeers have been smoking. I think their referring to the PC software emulation program that will allow you to reduce the '030 to the speeds of an IBM AT (wow! what a feature :-). I'm not sure if it emulates a PC (8088) or AT (80286), but it does simulate the entire hardware architecture (video display, I/O ports, etc). -- ========================================================================== Michael H. Cox ARPA: cox@garage.nj.att.com AT&T Bell Labs UUCP: ihnp4!bentley!cox 184 Liberty Corner Road COMPU$ERVE: 76525,3703 Rm 3N-D04 Warren, NJ 07060 (201) 580-8622 ==========================================================================
steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) (03/27/88)
From article <1088@bentley.UUCP>, by cox@bentley.UUCP (MH Cox): > In article <799@nuchat.UUCP> steve@nuchat.UUCP writes: >> ['030 is "dos compatible"??? > I think their referring to the PC software emulation program > that will allow you to reduce the '030 to the speeds of an IBM AT In other words, its a Turing machine. I would never have guessed that - see, ads can be useful! :-) Thanks for the clarification. -- Steve Nuchia | [...] but the machine would probably be allowed no mercy. uunet!nuchat!steve | In other words then, if a machine is expected to be (713) 334 6720 | infallible, it cannot be intelligent. - Alan Turing, 1947