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    bigfoot
    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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