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    Andreas_Wolf
    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?
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