Posts: 1387 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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amigadave wrote:
We will never know for sure, unless the Raspberry Pi is supported at some time in the future.
"We will never know for sure unless..." is not a good reason to do anything but trivial tasks.
Why not port MorphOS to the C64? It could become a huge hit, and nobody can prove otherwise unless it is being done! I am sure you get my point...
Supporting two separate processor architectures is not trivial by any means and brings severe risks of fragmentation, which would hurt the user experience. Porting the OS is the easy part. You are underestimating how much additional work it is you are asking for.
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Edit: Remember, one of, if not the main reason for the relative success of MorphOS 2.0 and above, was the fact that it runs on hardware that can be found widely, and purchased for very little investment.
Please carefully consider the following: You have
no idea what hardware a future x86-64 version of MorphOS would run on but you have already decided that the choices must be less widely available and substantially more expensive than a rumored hypothetical future Rasperry Pi model that has not been announced by anybody.
You are literally asking people to publicly commit to additional work based on your own guesswork, intuition and feelings,
not hard facts.
