| From: | Oliver Roberts |
| Date: | 08 Aug 2000 at 00:47:06 |
| Subject: | Re: morphos ;-) |
On 07-Aug-00 23:15:21 BST, Frank Wille wrote:
>> With MorphOS, PPC apps will still have to use 68k code (e.g.
>> for disk/io)
> MorphOS has a PPC-native cybppc.device, a PPC-native SFS file
> system, and some important dos.library functions are PPC native,
> so you have a good chance to run at full speed for disk/io.
Ah, but that doesn't help me as I use PFS3 :)
[dual cpu]
>> As an example,
>> you can play mp3s on the PPC, and all your 68k software will still run
>> at full speed.
> Not at full speed. You still have only one system bus, which the
> two CPUs have to share, even if there are no context switches. :)
Well, ok, maybe 95-99% full speed :) Whereas, with MorphOS, other apps
will only have around 70% cpu time (basing this on MP3s using up 30% of
my PPC cpu time under WarpOS).