Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
So Andreas, now that you've had time to look a the preliminary data on the new AMP T4240 with its e6500 multihreading core, what do you think?
Is the PPC dead?
Is this device unsuitable for desktop use?
Without SMP, I can't see MorphOS making much use of this, but I would like to see a Linux implementation.
Just a dual core model would allow four concurrent threads, with enhanced Altivec support, and 64 bit addressing.
Virtualization has come to the PPC in a big way with this one.
Maybe some clever tweaking of Quark could allow multiple copies of MorphOS to run at the same time.
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