[News] Nueron/NuOS: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire processors | ANN.lu |
Posted on 21-Jan-2004 19:44 GMT by Senex | 68 comments View flat View list |
In the forum of Amiga.org, Stephen Smith of Austex Software ("Uropa2") presented his Amiga-inspired project Nueron/NuOS, a Coldfire computer with its own operating system. (A german translation can be found at amiga-news.de.)
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Nueron/NuOS: Amiga-inspired computer project based on Coldfire processors : Comment 36 of 68 | ANN.lu |
Posted by info on 22-Jan-2004 17:32 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Matt Parsons): ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Q:My understanding is that coldfire CPUs won't run 680x0 code ...
A: Wrong, The Coldfire CPU can run 68K code, but is missing a few instructions (only three or four) which will be emulated by software .....
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Trapping and Emulating instructions is not a quick precedure. Especially as it's not just instructions that are missing it's adressing modes too. The Supervisor mode is different too, or at least it used to be :-/
AROS can be compiled for the Coldfire and not suffer any speed penalties."
If this is the case Matt, why not take the Kick from AOS and rework it for CF to boot 3.1 thru 3.9 Amiga OS?
It would be a great project! Who's interested? |
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