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    vox wrote:

    and new x5000/040 look like viable targets for e.g. MOS PPC64 4.0 (which should be MOS x64 4.0 too ...).


    MorphOS has supported the "X5000/40" for like half a decade now. Should MorphOS ever *fully* go 64-bit and/or SMP, then bigfoot's new kernel will most certainly be used. This was shown publicly 3 years ago as a tech demo, running on an AMD Ryzen 5 computer in 64-bit native mode (running MorphOS as a mixture of native AMD64 code and existing PowerPC code). And while bigfoot has confirmed the kernel also runs on X5000 (in fact the X5000 was used during its development), I'd say that the moment a MorphOS "NG" beyond just the kernel would be SMP and/or 64-bit compatible, then both binary compatibility and source compatibility would have been sacrificed and MorphOS "NG" would be more like AROS in a sense, meaning that PPC (including "X5000/40") would be kind of pointless in the sense it would offer *nothing* value adding compared to modern X64 or ARM solutions.
    MorphOS is Amiga done right! :-)
    MorphOS NG will be AROS done right! :-)
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