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Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
Quote:
ironfist wrote:
Eeeh.. If MorphOS should abandon PowerPC
for anything it should be x86!
Porting it to another dead-end architecture
would just prolong its misery..
MorphOS needs high volume, and ARM won't
help you with that. Just because it's ported so
some random ARM netbook, doesn't make it
run on mobile phones!
Cellular phones require expensive secret GSM/UMTS/
whatever technology which the MorphOS Team will
never get their hands on..
Stick with PowerPC or port it to x86 if you want
it to have a chance in future. Everything else is
IMO completely pointless. Really.
I was thinking a MorphOS port to ARM *could* have some point, because ARM runs in beg endian mode, too. This would help to integrate a 68k emulation just like under ppc MorphOS. But as it seems the big endian mode of the ARM is not perfect (but I haven't read too much about that). The "native mode" of ARM is little endian.
And if ARM doesn't offer the full benefit of the big endianess, then I do not see much of a point in porting MorphOS to ARM, *then* a port to x86 would make pretty much more sense (x86 will continue to be the main cpu architecture for teh foreseeable time).
Well, next is the Mac mini port. We'll see what comes afterwards.
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