3 ms·
> "DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basically running in emu
by lambdalambda 11y ago
> "DEC started a project to do dynamic translation from x86 to Alpha; at the time the project started, the projected performance of x86 basically running in emulation on Alpha was substantially better than native x86 on Intel chips."
I've heard this several times, but would love to read more about it. Anyone know where to find more information?
- topkekz 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32 (page 7) http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/fx32.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/fx32.pdf note that it was 500 MHz DEC Alpha vs 200 Mhz Pentium