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Re: PPC port to Amiga's with PowerUP or other PPC cards
> >
> > 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).
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