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    Yokemate of Keyboards
    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    >>> the Lite version is actually affordable.

    >>...but offers only one free PCIe slot after plugging a graphics card.

    > Which is an X4 slot

    It's an x8 slot.

    > that might potentially be able to be divided

    You mean with a PCIe splitter card?

    > the TalosII only supports USB 3.0

    It has one USB 2.0 port.

    > the SAM460 has a weaker cpu [...] to the X5000. It also only devotes
    > half as many PCI-e lanes to the video card as the X5000. If the emulation
    > truly is accurate in its duplication of each boards capabilities, then
    > obviously the X5000 emulation would be the more capable one.

    Both Cyrus/X5000 and Sam460 devote 4 PCIe lanes to the PEG slot. It's just that the lanes of Cyrus/X5000 are twice as fast (PCIe v2 vs. v1).
    But I don't think any of this makes a difference when emulating/virtualizing the systems with QEMU/KVM.

    > what outside of legacy Amiga compatibility prevents us from
    > creating a little endian variant of MorphOS?

    Source code access, and time and knowledge to fix all the big-endian assumptions? :-)

    >>> X5000 emulation [...] could support little endian applications.

    >> a potential little-endian AROS/PPC wouldn't make sense running
    >> trapped inside the virtualization of another platform when it
    >> can run on POWER9 natively

    > Right, it WOULDN'T make sense

    So which OS do you want to run on that virtualized X5000 running in little-endian mode?

    > Outside of WarpOS, MorphOS was the earliest operating system
    > on the Amiga market to support PPCs

    If you consider WarpOS, you should consider PowerUP as well, as it was the true predecessor to MorphOS, written by the same man.

    > it might even predate WarpOS, I'm not sure

    MorphOS (a complete PPC OS) is what emerged from the shortcomings of WarpOS and PowerUP (PPC kernels running the PPC as a mere co-processor to the m68k).

    > Open up development to more programmers.

    I think anyone can apply for MorphOS team membership and subsequent source code access. And if the powers that be feel that the applicant brings something tangible to the table I'm sure he or she won't be rejected.

    > Even Hyperion uses outside developers.

    Even? They simply cannot use any "inside delelopers" :-)
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