From: "Damian Yerrick" <snews AT pineight DOT 8m DOT comMUNIST-PIGS-AOL>
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"JP Morris" <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:
> There were rumours of a way to get the [AMD Athlon] CPU
> to execute its native RISC instructions (which would be pretty
> smart), but rumours are all I've heard.

So mail AMD about it.

Historical note: The old Apple IIGS's CPU (65c816) had an
"emulation mode" that made it act like 6502, the old Apple II /
NES / C64 CPU.

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