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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by badgersnake on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:53PM (#41284452)
It’s a funny one because it’s not like it ever really took off. Architectures like m68k are also probably pretty dead, but there’s a ton of these chips out there in embedded or retro kit and you can probably find one to test on if you need it.
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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by duskwuff on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:00PM (#41284960)
The Amiga crowd is probably the main reason m68k is still supported at all. It's a neat architecture but basically all of the hardware is out of production and has specifications which are untenable for a modern Linux system (<50 MHz, <256 MB RAM).
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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by Findecanor on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:27PM (#41284735)
There are also newer M68K cores designed by retro-enthusiasts to run in FPGA, either as emulator or as CPU accelerator in vintage computers. An example, the Apollo 68080: http://apollo-computer.com/apollo68080.php
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Re:Gentoo Linux Drops IA-64 (Itanium) Support – Gentoo Linux by rbanffy on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:01PM (#41284503)
It was never a big lineup as well. For any generation there were only a few models.
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