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

[Kolbjørn Barmen <kolla%nvg.org@localhost>]

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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