Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2720 from 2003/2/24
@jcmarcos
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Your idea of "picking up LimePC" makes sense, at least for an ignorant like me. but it's hard to tell how difficult it would be. Being such a little compuiter, it should be VERY easy to do, or it wouldn't be viable, we're talking low cost computing.
No. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Genesi developed the LimePC/Cherrypal, and they have already left it. For this:
3630491475_0301f70970.jpgThis chip has at least twice as good performance and much better specifications than the 5121e. It has lots of support controllers and accelerators. It has a SIMD unit (think Altivec). And it has momentum. It can do the things you want a netbook to do, the 5121e is *much* more limited in its specs and performance.
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In the past, I thought of an initiative consisting in buying a bunch of LimePCs and give them to the MorphOS Team, for them to check the possibility of a port. Hell, they are cheap!
I'll quote a reply that BBRV already made to Velcro_SP in an old thread:
"We tried to explain a number of times here and on PowerDeveloper why the 5121e is a waste of time for use with an OS like MorphOS. Please don't waste you time and money on this proposed bounty. If a MorphOS-Team developer wants one of these systems we would be happy to send one to them. This is not the issue."
"Porting MorphOS to the 5121e is a waste of time. It is too bad things worked out like they did. We had high hopes for this chip."MorphOS is Amiga
done right! 
MorphOS NG will be AROS
done right! 
