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Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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Jim wrote:
OK!
I must remember to read entire threads.
No Macs is cool with me.
And I have been using AMD processors in most of my X86 systems since the K6-III+ was introduced.
So we have the e5500 cored processors to look forward to support for in later revisions of our current OS (and with the e6500, a possible direction further).
And AMD's APUs can provide the base for the new branch.
Cool.
A new lightweight OS that isn't weighed down by legacy crap, that IS morphing to something better.
As Andreas Wolf mentioned, AMD64 does not mean AMD CPU's, or APU's, it could mean Intel chips as well, that use the AMD64 ISA.
Good point David, AMD did lead the move to 64 bit.
Although I tend to use X86-64 or X64 to differentiate this from X86 32 bit.
After all, it is just an advance on an Intel ISA.
Makes you wonder what hardware they will adopt.
If the past is any kind of indication, we may not get that much warning.
Still, I am looking forward to the X5000.
What happens after that...well it will have to be judged on its own merits.
Hopefully, the NGNG OS will incorporate some of the elements (outside of legacy compatibility) that make MorphOS stand out (compact/tight coding, micro kernel, etc).
[ Edited by Jim 15.07.2015 - 15:18 ]"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
