Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 588 from 2007/7/29
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Georg wrote:
Users have not much clue about world outside PPC land, where ports from one PPC machine to other PPC machine takes ages and just replacing a Philips screw with a torx screw apparently requires a new driver or it stops running.
It seems you have swapped PPC with "world outside". In this "world outside" (especially in Intel/AMD world) you often have the same board sold with one tiny thing changed and not mentioned. Sometimes not even a new revision of the board. And because of these little changes the developers or users have trouble.
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If you have an OS running on x86/x64 motherboard XYZ then it is *much* faster and easier work to make it run on 100 other completely different x86/x64 boards with completely different chipsets than it is to have an OS running on PPC motherboard XYZ and make it run on one single other different PPC board with a different chipset.
Is this the reason why AROS runs so perfectly on 100s of motherboards with very little changes? Because it is *much* faster to write 100 times new chipset drivers than only one time? Weird logic you have.
