Author: Johan Klockars (as28-3-8.va.g.bonet.se)
Date: 12-05-2002 00:42
> Imagine this: Let's buy a couple of those boards; run (embedded) linux (kernel only) on them together with aranym and there you have it: A modern, fast, not x86 based atari.
While that board does look interesting, I think it needs to be pointed out that it would not make for a fast Atari machine running (current) ARAnyM.
Without the JIT compiler, ARAnyM on my 1.3 GHz Athlon is only somewhere around '040 speed. And the JIT compiler is (currently) only available for x86...
It would be interesting to hear from someone who has run ARAnyM on a Mac similar to that PPC board. I'd be surprised if it managed to reach the CPU performance of, say a Milan040/25.
> 600MHz is stil a bit slow, but what the hack, my 1GHz windoze feels actually slower than a TT with NVDI...
Strange. Even my old K6-II/300 Win-machine felt faster than my AB040+Eclipse/RageII Falcon. Of course, YMMV.
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