Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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Andreas_Wolf wrote:
You mean the X5000 is the anchor which decelerates the OS4 boat it is tied to? I'd say it's the other way round: OS4 is the anchor for the X5000 boat.
Yes, OS4 is the boat anchor to the X5000. For whatever reason, the X5000 or bare board will not sell until OS4 is done, if ever. MorphOS has no ties to OS4, therefore the X5000 becomes the boat anchor to MorphOS.
Hopefully the crew (MorphOS Team) pull anchor (X5000) and drift into the future (X86-64).
MorphOS PPC on X5000 offers a mature, stable and reasonably fast environment in which to write drivers for more modern video hardware than can be offered by PPC Macs. Something that probably can't be offered by MorphOS X64 at the moment. The advantage is that should be this code can re-used in an MorphOS X64 when it's ready.
Actually, the latest drivers can use Atom bios, so the Macs could run newer video cards (than those supported by OSX), but we would need PCIe G5 support in order to use them.
However, I'd still like an X5000 as it is a more modern, lower power solution.
Edit - Sorry, that info just duplicates Andreas' post (but is less concise).
From the R500 series and up, the drivers can use Atom bios.
@ Yasu
There is always the possibility that a Power8 (or derivative processor) could be used in the desktop market.
AND, features of MorphOS X64 could be back ported to MorphOS PPC, OR new features (like compatibility with virtualization) could be added.
If I can buy one, I'm holding on to an X5000 for the foreseeable future, so its great to know support will be there.
Its just another measure of how good our developers are.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
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