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- From: cmatting@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Mattingly)
- Subject: Re: 32bit versions of wb3 ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192225.9605@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1jmnp8INNfan@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.163819.25003@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:22:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.163819.25003@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> mashton@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zaphod Beeblebrox) writes:
- >In article <1jmnp8INNfan@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_e445@king.ac.uk (Vlod Kalicun) writes:
- >>Hi Netters,
- >>Does anyone know why C= don't make specific version of Workbench for specific
- >>chips.??
- >>What I mean is compile WB (presume in C) with flags, so 68020/68040 instructions
- >>can be used.
- >>Wouldn't WB/and its other applications run faster, as the later chips will
- >>have better instructions??
- >>
- >>I relize that this wouldn't work on a stock 68000, but I don't see any real
- >>cost in doing this. Amigas generally come with WB so, if I upgrade to a
- >>4000, then I get a faster version of WB.
- >>Or is the speed increase minimal and a waste of time.. ??
- >>
- >>[sig deleted]
- >
- >
- >What makes you think that they don't?
- >How can you be sure without disassembling the code?
- >As WB3.0 won't run on a non-32bit processor they might well of done.
- >However, this is Commodore we're talking about.
- >Do they know _how_ to set compiler options ?? :-)
- >[sig and disclaimer deleted]
-
- Hmm..pardon me, but my 500 does not have a 32-bit processor, yet I can
- and have run WB3.0 on my machine. Now, some of the programs that come with
- it will mot run, like MultiView, but WB3.0 WILL load on a non-32-bit processor.
-
- --Chris
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