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Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
Quote:KennyR schrieb:
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Andreas_Wolf wrote:
> there's just a lot out there that can never support a
> 32-bit shared memory address OS like MorphOS or AmigaOS.
> Buying a 16 core CPU machine, 64 GB of RAM when you can
> only ever use one core and 2 GB is pretty daft
Isn't MorphOS on AMD64/x64, once released, supposed to be 64-bit and support SMP and full memory protection?
There's nothing that can do this and still remain compatible.
There's no free lunch. Losing binary compability is probably the price of going x64. But I could somehow imagine that there is a compability layer possible - put current MorphOS in a "box" (UAE, Qemu,...). Eventually MorphOS would become the box system we once were talking about. Well, kind of.
Dunno, we are takling about this since a decade now (I wrote about it in 2011: https://via.i-networx.de/q86.htm) and still we are where we are. MorphOS became better and better, we got a brilliant new browser and mailer and this and that, but we are still on old PPCs.
It a great OS with great applications, but it is run with a pulled handbrake!
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