MorphOS Developer
Posts: 508 from 2003/4/11
Quote:Andreas_Wolf wrote:
Indeed, that's why MorphOS can run on G5. The same is obviously true for the X5000's e5500 core, which is why MorphOS and OS4 can run on it. The only 64-bit-only Power(PC) I'm aware of is the
A2.
I gotta admit that I hadn't heard of that one, nor its open sourcing. In any case, that it supposedly was 64 bit only was a bit surprising to me, especially after checking the introduction on the Wikipedia page, which claims that it implements PowerISA v2.06, which to the best of my knowledge doesn't allow 64-bit processors to not implement a 32 bit mode.
After checking out the linked A2 documentation, it does imply that the 32 bit mode is also available on those CPUs.
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