OS3.x PPC?

[motorollin]

Is there any reason why OS3.9 functions couldn't be rewritten as PPC versions? It seems to me that this could be a good alternative to OS4 Classic if what one is looking for is a PPC native Workbench with Classic compatibility.

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moto

[motorollin]

No, I didn't mean recompile. I meant rewrite from scratch. MorphOS and OS4 aren't quite the same since they're not (AFAIK) API compatible with OS3.x. A PPC rewrite of 3.x would be both API and binary compatible (binary compatibility being provided by the 68k CPU).

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moto

[motorollin]

Piru wrote:
MorphOS is API and binary (ABI) compatible with AOS 3.x (barring couple of things, such as BCPL).

Interesting, I didn't realise that. Would it even run hardware bashing software like WHDLoad? (on Classic)

Piru wrote:
Also, once you throw in JIT compilation, the emulated 68k runs circles around 68060, not to mention 68040@25.

Even on BPPC/CSPPC?

Piru wrote:
W00T, this was my 4000th post.

W00t indeed :pint:

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moto