Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Chameleon chip Message-ID: <3132@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 27 Sep 88 20:40:35 GMT References: <8809231536.AA23160@wpi.local> <480NETOPRMS@NCSUVM> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 16 >> What is a chamelon chip? > In the Rumor posting by Murphy Sewall had an article outlining ... > software thinks you are running XXXXX chip. This allows you to run several > different processors on one chip. As I recall, the chip had to be 'burned in' to a particular instruction set you wanted to run. This would presumably limit its ability to run 'everything' Some believe that this would be a way to avoid microcode lawsuits, since resposibility for the chip's instruction set would be diffused. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius3.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)"