@Samwel

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Sammy? My name is Harry not Sammy.. You must have me confused with someone else. Troll why? No need to troll. I now about BPlan's G5 project. It's nice but I see no relevance here because if dual core and/or dual CPU can't be used by MOS or OS4 the Pegasos3 will be slower than ACK's 7448 board running these OS'es. It has been tested elsewhere that G4's running at the same frequency as single core G5's are about the same speed (running 32bit code). Why buy a 4 core board when the OS only can use 1 core? Which infact run about 500MHz slower than ACK's offer.

Someone on here posted a list of PPC prices the other day, and IIRC the G5's were cheaper than the 7448! I wonder if theres someone who's got time on their hands and is interested enough to want to research this.

From the OS4.0 feature list released years ago:
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Planned and already partially implemented functionality: - Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP): support for multiple CPUs. - Multithreading: Tasks can consist of multiple threads of execution which are scheduled individually on a higher frequency.

I wonder how much progress Hyperion have made so far, and if their implementation will be compatible with existing stuff. They've stated for months that they're just doing boring bugfixing, and implementing the virtual memory pager, but I'm sure they're beavering away on something cool as well. :)

@Samwel

"tested elsewhere" is a nice term, and if you just search hard enough
you'll find test results that back up pretty much everything.

It might be that a G4 running at 1.7GHz (I'll just assume thats the
one you are refering to) will outperform a single core G5 running at
1.2GHz when doing CPU-intensive task.

But will that still be true when one factors in RAM-performance and
such ? And what about the price of the fish ?

Btw. all is pretty mucht theoretical, since noone has yet seen any
ACK-boards or on G5 from Genesi/bPlan, and I seriously doubt thats
gonna change anytime soon.

But let us not get to much down into the real world ....

I think noone would doubt that a 2xG5-dual-core will easily outperform
any single G4 on an HW-basis.

Now both Amigaoid-PPC-OSes can't make use of more than a single core
atm, but I see no problem letting them grow into it, just like they
have grown into 3D on the Radeons. Cos following your logic and
looking what both offered at the time of initial release every A1 and
Peg should have come with something between an S3 or Permedia instead
...

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@Samwel

I don't know that you have been smoking. I can't discuss with you harry. Comeback then ACK have shown their hardware. It maybe is a hoax, who knows.. Genesi have proven that they can get hardware out to the market.