Thierry Atheist
Posts 644 09 Jan 2016 15:30
| I've seen that mentioned quite a few times and don't understand it either. I believe I've read that floating point operations can be computed out to 80 bits with only 64 retained, on original 68060 CPUs. But this bit thing brings up something that has been bothering me forever. Even though AOS is a 32 bit OS, and it works on 32 bit CPUs, the maximum RAM is 2 gigs instead of 4. Q 1. AOS3.0 or 3.1 has been leaked onto the internet. Is it authentic, and is enough of it available that it could be recompiled so that we could use 4 gigs of RAM? Q 2. Does AROS allow for 4 gigs of RAM to be used? Q 3. Okay, this one is just something I thought of right now, and I ask because I'm clueless of how software works, yet can see that it can do almost anything, so here goes: Since the Apollo Core and S-AGA is a software construct, WHAT IF the 68060 made were 33 bits??? In other words, is an integer overflow what triggers an AOS software failure at the 31/32 bit address barrier and it could be avoided by adding a "phantom bit"?
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