Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 161 from 2009/12/10
From: Minnesota, USA
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bigfoot wrote:
SMP support in a MorphOS-compatible MorphOS is possible, however it would run so slow and crippled that no one would want to use it. If you don't take my word for it, the AROS guys did some experiments that proved exactly that, which you can go and look up.
One advantage the AROS team has that the MorphOS team doesn't is that the authors of AROS were free to relicense. The ARIX project is a hybrid of Linux and AROS. From what I've read on AROS-Exec.org, ARIX is an implementation of AROS' "Silly SMP" with parts of the Linux kernel to do the grunt work that the AROS team didn't have time to do.
To do the same thing in MorphOS or AmigaOS 4.x would require purchasing or licensing some closed-source kernel that would work well for Amiga-like responsiveness. It would also have to run on PowerPC which is increasingly difficult to find. I don't know if Blackberry is willing to license the QNX kernel out any more, now that it's been bought out.
