Everything about WarpOS
Multitasking kernel for PowerPC CPU used by AmigaOS
WarpOS is a multitasking kernel for the PowerPC (PPC) architecture central processing unit (CPU) developed by Haage & Partner for the Amiga computer platform in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It runs on PowerUP accelerator boards developed by phase5 which contains both a Motorola 68000 series CPU and a PowerPC CPU with shared address space. WarpOS runs alongside the 68k-based AmigaOS, which can use the PowerPC as a coprocessor. Despite its name, it is not an operating system (OS), but a kernel; it supplies a limited set of functions similar to those in AmigaOS for using the PowerPC. When released, its original name was WarpUP, but was changed to reflect its greater feature set, and possibly to avoid comparison with its competitor, PowerUP. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: WarpOSA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Getting to Know OS/2 Warp 4The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: Phase5A closely related topic
- Go sideways: PowerUP (accelerator)A closely related topic
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đź“š Books worth reading
Getting to Know OS/2 Warp 4Neil Stokes · 1996- 📕L'accès aux zones de pêche en Afrique de l'ouestKees Lankester, Papa Samba Diouf · 2002
- 📕Ateliers sur l'accès aux zones de pêche en Afrique de l'OuestKees Lankester, Papa Samba Diouf · 2002
- 📕Where land meets the seaM. Rafiqul Islam · 2004
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