Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> Power 9 would [...] run our current software.
...with an OS API as it is now, not with a MorphOS as envisioned by amigadave
> Power 9 platform would run SAM460 or X5000 emulation better the X64 systems [...]
> Power 9's instruction set is related to PPC
Even better: POWER9, PPC440 and e5500 all implement Power ISA
> if a larger than ATX, 2 socket board can be built for only a few hundred
> more than an X5000, couldn't a 1 socket ATX board be built for less?
Less than the dual-socket EATX board?
Yes. Less than Cyrus/X5000? I don't think so.
No, I don't think it would be less than the X5000 either, but they could be remarkably close in price (considering that they are not that far apart now).
And I'm more interested in what could be done as an extension of what we currently have, into an smp/32 (or 64) bit enabled future.
This could start right now with the G5 and migrate into Power 9 relatively painlessly.
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