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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > a PowerPC netbook, at least in small scales that we're after, should
    > cost much more than that. Probably more than $600. On the other hand,
    > it would be really cool to have a modern PowerPC laptop again -I'm
    > writing this now on a Powerbook G4 12", the closest thing to a
    > PowerPC "netbook".

    There is already one, albeit with a CPU that's surely not in the class of the CPUs proposed by you:

    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6436&forum=11

    But then, you probably already know that one at least since your thread at the Haiku forum.

    > it just occured to me, that binaries with FPU code, will not be
    > able to run on the e500 cores without some kind of real-time FPU
    > code translation, with performance loss.

    Exactly, though only true for e500v2 (and before), which the P1 (and P2) series has. e500mc of P4 series (and coming P3 and P5 series) has a "desktop compatible" FPU implementation.

    More (and links therein):
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6313&forum=11&start=3
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6465&forum=11&start=19
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