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[openbeos] Re: Kernel status (POSIX)
- From: Erik Reid <reide@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 23:47:29 -0700
Quoth "Michael Phipps":
>As far as the whole PPC thing goes, you are not the first person to bring
>it up. Personally, I have little interest in trying to figure out, via reverse
>engineering, every little quirk that Apple HW engineers have come up with.
>If there is a group of people out there who, post-R1, want to take a whack
>at that, wonderful. I don't dislike the idea of PPC support. But I do think
>that
>it is a far bigger mouthful than most people think. And to be honest, not
>one that inspires me all that much. PPC hw is VASTLY overpriced. Buying
>new PPC hardware to run OBOS would be silly. So I would have to assume
>that the point would be to get MacConverts. That was FAR easier in the MacOS8
>days. :-/
I think that if someone wanted to do support for PPC(or a group of people or
whatever),
it shouldn't be outlawed.. It is a free project, after all, and it wouldn't
hurt.
Not mandating it as a main goal of the project for the moment makes sense, of
course. :)
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