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    Zylesea
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    Andreas_Wolf schrieb:
    >> the SoC could handle at least twice the amount

    > IIRC it was advertized to be available in configurations up to 1 GiB RAM.

    This would have been dishonest advertising then, considering this:

    "256-MByte addressing range per Chip Select (Two CS lines available)"
    https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/MPC5200BUM.pdf (p. 15)

    "256 MB addressing range per CS, two CS available"
    https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/MPC5200BDS.pdf (p. 1)

    "256 Mbyte addressing range"
    https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/product-brief/MPC5200BPB.pdf (p. 3)

    So the maximum could have been either 256 MiB or 512 MiB.


    Maybe my memory is mixing this up with the Efika512x announcements. Which, eventally doesn't matter the slightest, as Efika5200B is EOL and Efika512x never did it (and the show stopper "cache coherency" wouldn't have been too much of an issue for MorphOS AFAIK)... Pity as it held really some potential back in ints time. But wel, long ago and my stance is not to look back too much, but rather forward! Thing is ppc is in limbo/coma and IMHO not a path worth to pursue any further. The Raptor boards could be worth a _little_ thinking though, but *I* would put all efforts into MorphOS NG on x64. Current MorphOS is just pretty polished and should still get some love for the next couple of years (i.e. some updates of this and that), but focus should be the inevitable break and switch to x64.
    It's shitload of work but eventually one thing is cystal clear: On PPC MorphOS will not have a future, on x64 there's at least a little prospect for some sustainability.
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