Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12408 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> The team [...] can buy any HW they are interested in. And they do, they bought
> the X5000's, the Sam, and all other machines they have supported.
Did they?
http://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_1978.htmlhttp://morph.zone/modules/news/article_storyid_2047.htmlAnd Jim makes no secret of his numerous graphics card donations to Bigfoot.
> It's very powerful, but mostly in ways that aren't really relevant in a traditional
> Amigoid context I think. Considerable focus is put on massive bandwidth and
> parallellism. I can't really see where this makes sense or is harvestable for MorphOS.
POWER9 has also great single-thread performance, compared to high-end x86-64 CPUs. See these single-thread benchmark results for (the slower) POWER8:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9193/the-xeon-e78800-v3-review/11http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-part-1/9> They have said that the Sam port [...] meant a lot for cleaning and evolving the MorphOS
> source code. They have also said similar things about the X5000, i.e. not really about
> market/platform growth, they don't expect that to happen, that's not why they did it.
Actually, what was said
is this (emphasis mine):
"
it had some sideeffects everyone using MorphOS right now benefits from. Huge parts of the boot process and the kernel needed to be rewritten/cleaned. Tons of bugs sitting there were found and fixed. Stuff optimised. Less memory used. So the other systems are now even more stable, have a little more free memory for applications and boot faster. [...] It also (main reason for supporting the 460) allowed to support X5000 boards (getting it to boot) in hours instead weeks."
According to this, "
cleaning and evolving the MorphOS source code" allegedly was just a welcome side effect. The "
main reason for supporting the 460" allegedly was faster support of the X5000, a platform they now say there is no real market for (which is the same thing they said about the Sam460 before). Supporting a platform with no market to faster support another platform with no market? Weird, huh?
> PPC and POWER.
..."PPC (including POWER)" (or better: "Power Architecture (including POWER)") :-)
>> If this workstation can be considered a "desktop" computer?
> IMHO it's something else. Even if it could be used as one, its
> features and design clearly has other areas of use in mind.
https://static.rptorcs.com/images/talos-page/banner-2-large.png ;-)