Welcome to the merger of /aig/ and /aOSg/ (gatekeeping is for faggots edition).
ITT, we discuss alternative operating systems and alternative ISAs.
>What is alternative ISA?Non-x86 ISAs from the past (6502, 68000, Alpha, Itanium, PA-RISC, POWER, SuperH, VAX, Z80, PDP-11), the present (ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Power, SPARC) and the future (LoongArch, OpenPOWER, RISC-V).
>What is an alternative OS?Alternatives to mainstream Windows, Mac, and Linux distros, such as SerenityOS, Haiku, GNU/HURD, AmigaOS/AROS/MorphOS, OS/2, and rare BSDs, as well homebrew projects and operating system development.
>Is my prototype Alpha 21464 running an esoteric port of Windows 2000 /aig/ & /aOSg/ approved?Yes, and so are PowerPC Macs running Classic or OS X, ARM and RISC-V SBCs, running custom Linux distros, SGIs running IRIX and SUN pizza boxes running SOLARIS, etc.
>WIKI:https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki//aig/_Alternative_ISA_General>Library:https://mega.nz/file/0PplHSyL#eK_f2ZSc2f0E8_RLUGz9nVn40myXhyiRDMU_FhgO2wk>Anon's Strawpoll:https://strawpoll.com/py64hxj18>News:LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions -
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LoongArch-Linux-6.5OpenPOWER Virtual Summit October 8th -
https://openpowerfoundation.org/events/openpower-virtual-summit-2021-north-america-2/128 core Ampere Altra Benchmarks -
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-altramax-benchmarks&num=1SiFive HiFive Unmatched initial benchmarks -
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=hifive-unmatched-benchmarks&num=1SPARC getting dropped from illumos (OpenSolaris fork) -
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Illumos-Drops-SPARCPower10 not fully open -
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IBM-POWER10-Not-All-Open-FW