By: vvid (no.delete@this.thanks.com), August 8, 2014 4:35 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Ungo (a.delete@this.b.c.d.e) on August 6, 2014 6:04 pm wrote:
> Running the same kernel on two different
> CPUs and trying to make it all act like a true, tightly coupled SMP system (albeit one where some
> processes can only be scheduled on one CPU type) would actually be far more difficult.
Well, I commented about dual-processor system acting as "hardware-VM", running different OSes simultaneously.
But if you want "SMP", Phase5 PPC accelerators could run both PPC + 68K software in a single AmigaOS environment simultaneously (in 1997).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarpOS
> Running the same kernel on two different
> CPUs and trying to make it all act like a true, tightly coupled SMP system (albeit one where some
> processes can only be scheduled on one CPU type) would actually be far more difficult.
Well, I commented about dual-processor system acting as "hardware-VM", running different OSes simultaneously.
But if you want "SMP", Phase5 PPC accelerators could run both PPC + 68K software in a single AmigaOS environment simultaneously (in 1997).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarpOS
