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Re: Will OS4 have SMP after all
« Reply #14 from previous page: July 26, 2013, 03:34:35 PM »
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Yeah, but you routinely keep ignoring the point that the OS calls don't need to going through interpretation.

What you are talking about is less efficient.


I know it is less efficient, but the idea is that it is only to run a few old apps and you get the bonus of all our old hardware hitting software working too (which you don't get with the AOS4/MOS system).

As a user running AROS on a 8Gig 3Ghz+ multicore computer, you are probably going not going to worry that it's slightly less efficient... But is more compatible :)

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Re: Will OS4 have SMP after all
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2013, 03:52:32 PM »
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Well, with AOS4 Classic you do because the hardware is there.
That's a little off topic, AOS4 classic is never going to have SMP :)

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Re: Will OS4 have SMP after all
« Reply #16 on: July 26, 2013, 03:57:06 PM »
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There's nothing to stop an opensource OS that is yet to be written from running on the BPPC and farming out 68k processes to the onboard 060 though. ;)
The the CPUs in question are not identical, then that's not SMP ;)

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Re: Will OS4 have SMP after all
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2013, 12:04:56 PM »
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A clone of Trance with seamless byte-swapping would be nice.  Shame Emumiga never got off the ground. :(


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I know, I really liked the whole Emumiga concept, but it was a complex idea... I had a look at resurrecting it myself, but it was out of my league... Especially with how little time I had.


Just kicking around a few ideas early this morning... and It struck me that perhaps the Emumiga project started too high?

It was three ideas in one... A 68K emulator, A byte swapping thunking layer, and an App to AROS bridging layer...

I wonder if this could be done more simply... hmmm... off to AROS-exec.org I go :)