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    Zylesea
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    I guess they will use an okay ppc. But the price of the whole x1000 will probably be insane.
    And I doubt a G5 for MorphOS will cut it either. We will probably see no SMP (as far as one can say it is just not possible w/o breaking the compability). And with one core only the 970 isn't that much superior over the e600 core. The Altivec implemantation on the e600 is pretty nice. So I guess the effort to support the 970 is not worth the benefit.
    I think once the G4 mines are carved to fatigue it will be time to finally do the radical cut and move on to QBox-land (i.e. ISA independent design). But this requires heaps of loads of work. And I wouldn't hold my breath for that and semi officially the QBox is abandonned (but everything has a chance of a renaissance).



    [ Edited by Zylesea on 2010/1/6 13:51 ]
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