• Jim
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    Jim
    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.

    [ Edited by Jim 27.06.2011 - 18:29 ]
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