Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> X5000 emulation is under development
Is it? It's known who works on Sam460 emulation, but who works on X5000 emulation?
> MorphOS coding does rely on these "dirty" trick
Huh?
> if I need Office [...], I can't running it an emulated X64 session on a Power 9 platform.
;-)
> PPC [...] is a dead end [...] likely [...] at AMCC as well
Applied Micro ceased existence a while ago. And yes, PPC is a dead end at MACOM,
the new owner.
> the only real flicker of life is in the embedded products IBM designs and
> Power 8, 9, and beyond.
Embedded Power Architecture from IBM? Has there been anything after the A2-based chips from 2010/2011 and the 476FPE and 476GTR from 2011/2013 (and Espresso from 2012, if we want to include this)?
> that is going to make us "yet another X86/X64 operating system", one of thousands
> dominated by two companies Intel and Apple
Thousands? I don't think Apple dominates any OS but its own.
> The PowerMac G5 can handle a 64 bit OS, and I've seen modification that
> allow memory addressing up to 64 GB (depending on the model).
Any details?