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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #74 from previous page: July 08, 2010, 12:22:20 AM »
What if you had enough *native* apps to get rid of legacy ones ?
You will always be able to run them with UAE anyway...

Why are we still talking about *legacy* in 2010 ? We need to move forward...
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #75 on: July 08, 2010, 12:39:14 AM »
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What if you had enough *native* apps to get rid of legacy ones ?

You won't. The potential market is way too small for serious commercial apps. If your software library consists of ports of X or linux apps why not run linux directly then?
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #76 on: July 08, 2010, 08:31:44 AM »
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You won't. The potential market is way too small for serious commercial apps. If your software library consists of ports of X or linux apps why not run linux directly then?

Really ? As I see it most important 68k apps have already been ported...

A PPC-only MorphOS (plus UAE for older apps/games) will be enough already.

What if someday MorphOS gets ported to some new architecture ? Does this mean we'll have:

 1. 68k emulator
 2. ppc emulator
 3. new xx processor native apps
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #77 on: July 08, 2010, 08:48:28 AM »
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Really ? As I see it most important 68k apps have already been ported...


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Huh ?

Name one paint/gfx-app that has been ported over to PPC (OS4 or MorphOS) and is still actively maintained.

Name one word-processor .....

There is some movement in sound&music, but still lots of important apps left behind.

And no running badly ported Linux-apps by installing half-a-linux on OS4 doesn't cut the beef .....
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #78 on: July 08, 2010, 09:27:32 AM »
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I doubt very much Microsoft would change from PPC back to Intel either,

It's a difficult call. Microsoft went to IBM because they benefited from Sony's R&D budget. Sony might not want to get screwed by IBM again.
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X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #79 on: July 08, 2010, 01:12:08 PM »
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Isn't that a bit premature considering there isn't even 3D support for the included Radeon X700 card yet?

As far as I can tell both ATI and nVidia are keeping their GPU stream processing drivers closed source (and binaries are only available for x86 and amd64). So where is this GPGPU stuff coming form then?


No idea.
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #80 on: July 08, 2010, 02:16:25 PM »
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You won't. The potential market is way too small for serious commercial apps. If your software library consists of ports of X or linux apps why not run linux directly then?



Well, I'm not a coder but simply a user, and as I'd say not a novice user, every Linux distro I've used *feels*, and *looks* well, yuck.  

GNOME looks like a homemade amateur GUI and just doesn't feel responsive.  KDE 3 was OK, but KDE 4 is rubbish.
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #81 on: July 08, 2010, 02:40:39 PM »
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No idea.


Why did you bring it up up then (GPGPU)? Did you read somewhere that Hyperion plans to support it?
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Re: X1000 CPU is PWRficient PA6T
« Reply #82 on: July 08, 2010, 07:18:39 PM »
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Name one paint/gfx-app that has been ported over to PPC (OS4 or MorphOS) and is still actively maintained.

Name one word-processor .....

There is some movement in sound&music, but still lots of important apps left behind.

There's none. But name me one 68k word processor or gfx/paint app that's been updated in the last 5 years ?

I guess there's none... I'd rather see some serious/rather up to date app like Blender (for 3D) ported to native, rather than being able to use a useless legacy app...

And for that we don't need legacy apps...

Who's using Lightwave on a Pegasos ?
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