Karlos wrote:
Does MOS actually run 64-bit native? That would be rather cool :-)
Nope!
MorphOS is just 32 bit as OS 4.0...
...and both OSes could NOT use Simmetrical MultiProcessing (SMP) to let the scheduled jobs that the OS should perform in its normal daily working, all the threads, all I/O and the allocations of tasks and data into memory to be splitted on any core of any CPU to divide the work, reduce the usage and increase speed.
At least Bill Buck said that these new Pegasos III are ready for virtualization.
This means (rough and approximatively) that you can run one istance of MorphOS in one G5 core by using 32 bit mode compatibility, and another instance into another core using same mode.
Or you can run Linux, in one or two cores Linux, Mac OS in a third core, and MorphOS in the fourth core.
Or maybe you can use Linux in full 64 bit in two cores and doing something else into other two cores with MacOS in 32 bit and MorphOS in 32 bit.
Or again you can run Linux in one CPU using both cores at full 64bit, and MacOS in MOLK emulation in the other CPU using both cores at 64 bit.
(two Oses at full 64 bit running at same time)
Or even finally you can run four istances of MorphOS, all running in 32 bit emulation in any of G5 cores.
If true, then it could be really interesting unless someone will decide that AmigaOS or MorphOS should be ported to 64 bit and modified to support SMP.
Time will see.
