WarpOS

WarpOS
Developer	Haage & Partner
Written in	PowerPC assembly language
OS family	AmigaOS
Working state	Discontinued
Initial release	1997
Final release	Final / 2007
Marketing target	Amiga
Available in	English
Update method	Compile from source code
Platforms	Amiga PowerPC
Kernel type	Microkernel
Default; user interface	Command-line interface
Preceded by	AmigaOS
Succeeded by	AmigaOS 4, MorphOS

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.

It was developed by Sam Jordan using 680x0 and PowerPC assembly language.^[8] It was distributed free of charge.