Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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ThePlayer wrote:
In my opinion the Devs should concentrate on the ISA shift. Instead support every piece of PPC Mac's out there. What would be the benefit of supporting the 11,2 Mac? Only slightly better graphic cards. But the G5 is today in many cases slower then my Mobile phone(Sony Xperia XZ2). When I browse the internet on my Phone the websites (full sites not mobile) opens faster then on my G5.
I say go for AMD64! Then we can get us a nice Ryzen system maybe a Ravenridge with built-in Vega and have a gigantic boost in performance.
A Radeon HD 6870 is significantly more powerful than a Radeon X1950Pro or Apple X800XT AGP card.
Although I agree with you that an AND64 Ryzen processor based platform would be a nice target.
But, again, the work needed to adopt the 11,2 PowerMac isn't that much. Fan speed and temp control primarily.
Either way,with KVM & QEMU, Power 9 will eventually be able to emulate PPC32, PPC64, and X64 ISAs, so discussion of continued PPC support is irrelevant.
Because its already a certainty.
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