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If someone from IBM is watching, it would be a really fun project to try to port some form of Amiga OS to run on POWER8. All of the POWER chips add complex inst
by apaprocki 11y ago
If someone from IBM is watching, it would be a really fun project to try to port some form of Amiga OS to run on POWER8. All of the POWER chips add complex instructions to the ISA but are all fully compatible with PPC COM(mon).
- Someone 11y agoA hobbyist could do that. It's not an enormous system, but $3k buys you a Power8 system (http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/ http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/).
- vidarh 11y agoGetting AROS to run certainly would be possible. The biggest question would be "why", as though there's been some very experimental work on SMP for AROS and claims of work on SMP for OS4, currently all of the alternatives are still stuck using just a single core.