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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
    Yokemate of Keyboards
    takemehomegrandma
    Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
    Looks like there is a bounty for new, open sourced, PPC HW coming?

    http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2009/11/power2people-mpc8610.html

    "A planned high-performance update to the Pegasos Open Desktop Workstation"
    MorphOS is Amiga done right! :-)
    MorphOS NG will be AROS done right! :-)
  • »13.11.09 - 08:13
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    metalmac
    Posts: 87 from 2007/5/26
    Very intresting!
    PowerBook G4@1.5Ghz, 1Gb ram, MorphOS 3.12
    Amiga 1200, Blizzard 1220/4@28Mhz, 500Mb HD, 6mb RAM, Workbench 3.1
    AspireOne, 1Gb RAM, 160Gb HD, Icaros Desktop
    AmigaOne 500, 2Gb ram, AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
  • »13.11.09 - 10:00
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    jcmarcos
    Posts: 1178 from 2003/3/13
    From: Pinto, Madrid ...
    Zero risk for Genesi, in this case.
  • »13.11.09 - 10:24
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    stephen_robinson
    Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22
    "There exist also development ports to the Freescale MobileGT platform."

    from http://www.morphos.de/faq.html

    To be honest, I don't know what that really means...
  • »13.11.09 - 19:08
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    Kronos
    Posts: 2326 from 2003/2/24
    "MobileGT" was(is) based on the the same SoC as the Efika, nad AFIAR the MorphOS-port was (partly) done before the Efika was created.

    Some basic info
  • »13.11.09 - 19:29
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    Posts: 236 from 2003/7/28
    From: Canada
    @takemehomegrandma

    Well good news. They never should have iced the original mpc8610 in the first place :) Looks like lesson learned.

    Now the hard part....we wait. Hopefully they can get it into developer's hands in months, not years.

    Any interest for MorphOS on this?

    will it be faster than Mac Mini ?
    A4000/060/PPC-200MHz, A4000T/060/PPC-233MHz, CD32, MicroA1, Pegasos 2 G4, AMD Phenom Quad Core 2.5GHz, MacMini 1.5GHz/64MB VRam...mwwmwahhh :)
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    takemehomegrandma
    Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
    Quote:


    HammerD wrote:
    @takemehomegrandma

    Well good news. They never should have iced the original mpc8610 in the first place :) Looks like lesson learned.


    IMHO, there is no real news here at all. Merely some vague ambition declaration. Let's keep an eye on this, and see if anything comes out of it. :-)

    Quote:

    will it be faster than Mac Mini ?


    AFAIK, in most circumstances, it would indeed.

    :-)
    MorphOS is Amiga done right! :-)
    MorphOS NG will be AROS done right! :-)
  • »13.11.09 - 21:27
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12164 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > "There exist also development ports to the Freescale MobileGT platform."
    > from http://www.morphos.de/faq.html
    > To be honest, I don't know what that really means...

    http://www.freescale.com/mobilegt
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileGT
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6428&forum=3#65042
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6122&forum=11&start=20#60843
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3363&forum=2
    http://www.morphos-news.de/index.php?lg=en&nid=1034&si=1
    http://www.morphos-news.de/comments.php?lg=en&cpp=1&nid=1033&page=5&cdir=2

    Unfortunately, the seven photos of MorphOS on MobileGT from back then don't seem to be online here on MorphZone anymore.

    Edit: Found one of the photos elsewhere:

    http://obligement.free.fr/articles/debutermorphospegasos.php#3.5
  • »13.11.09 - 22:45
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