Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12075 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
> recompilation with manual work required for commands that
> work differently, aren't implemented, or have alternatives
> that aren't directly interchangable via a cross compiling.
Such manual work wouldn't be required with recompilation. After all, that's the point of using a compiler: translating the source code into the correct opcodes of the target CPU. Problem would be with running existing, already compiled binaries where there's no source code available anymore to recompile.
> some companies that supported the 68K (including a major
> laser printer manufacturer) went this way.
Yes, HP didn't need to run binaries compiled for their old m68k-based printers on their newer ColdFire-based printers. They could simply recompile the sources.
> Freescale/NXP has never offered their best Coldfire CPUs
> (the super scalar Coldfire V5s) for sale to the general public.
While this is true, availability of the ColdFire V5/V5e chips is not the real problem, but documentation is:
http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=333280#p333280http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=333429#p333429> There are 200-233 MHz V4's still available
Even up to 266 MHz for the V4e.
