Subject: Re: PPC port to Amiga's with PowerUP or other PPC cards
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kolbj=F8rn_Barmen?= <kolla@nvg.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 12/03/1997 06:13:50
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> > > It certainly would be cute to have the companion cpu run m68k binaries,
> > > but I predict that the difficulties:
> > > 
> > > - synchronizing caches on cross-cpu context switch
> > > - translating syscalls (ok, the fake-netbsd-m68k kernel would solely
> > > consist of the syscll translation mechanism)
> > > 
> > > will prevent its easy implementation. 
> > 
> > Symmetric Multi Vendor Multi Processing, not in my lifetime...
> 
> Uh, no, what was called for was Asymmetric Multi Processing (AMP).

And in this case, very much so... VAMP ;)


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