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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    vox
    Posts: 524 from 2003/11/24
    From: Belgrade
    Quote:

    Jim wrote:
    Quote:

    Andreas_Wolf wrote:
    > The whole point of an architecture change is to drop legacy compatibility,
    > which enables things like SMP.

    Funny. I thought the whole point of dropping legacy compatibility was to change the architecture. Else you could break compatibility and implement SMP etc. on dual-G4 or dual-G5 :-)


    Actually, I am still not convinced that partial SMP and dual boxing could not be implemented on the PPC hardware.
    With virtualization support, it would be easier on an X64 system, but we are not talking about retaining Abox after the ISA jump.

    AND the latest PPCs feature a hypervisor, so it would be completely possible to run two boxed processes.

    Here is one challenge, state it can not be done, as an absolute.
    I don't think that is true.
    The developers just don't have the will or interest in doing it.

    And after having been beaten down for years by those making calls for an ISA change, I think they want to take the easy way out.


    I agree. If MacOS X can do it or Linux ...

    X1000 supports hyper ... but Linux or OS4 doesm`t use it. That would be nice platform to start the sandbox building and making MorphOS platform (CPU) independent as much as possible. Next thing is really RadeonHD support. I am not here to decide for the team, but I speak how I would imagine doing things right ...
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