[haiku] Re: Fwd: Re: Introducing Myself

I could use my Imac for that purpose but I havent found any PPC "emulator"
over PPC. Maybe Mac-on-mac but I would need to go back to 10.3 because right
now it's my main computer. As I said y will look forward to get a new one
this Christmas.

2008/11/29 Samir Gartner <jigzat@xxxxxxxxx>

> What is top-post?...... well if you put it that way maybe it does have
> sense to keep a PPC branch.
> How far is the PPC behind the x86 branch? is it just a kernel/drivers
> matter?
>
> 2008/11/29 André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Please, don't top-post :)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 18:36, Samir Gartner <jigzat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Yeah I actually have a PS3, and dont get me wrong I have always think
>> that
>> > PPC is superior than X86 but I have always seen BeOS/ Haiku as more
>> desktop
>> > worthy than embedded. Besides, gaming consoles make a big leap in
>> hardware
>> > every iteration than desktop architectures so it would be harder to keep
>> up.
>>
>> Even though this is not a very widespread knowledge, BeOS was
>> successfully used on embedded appliances (like RADAR24). And both the
>> desktop and embedded appliances are worthy targets for Haiku.
>>
>> The period between iterations on previous consoles was of 6-7 years.
>> Given that each PPC-sporting console in the current generation is less
>> than 2 years old, they're pretty stable targets to aim for, IMHO.
>>
>> Still, I don't see the next iterations of Xbox, Playstation and Wii
>> going anywhere but PowerPC. In the Nintendo case, they've been using
>> PPCs for two generations already. It's highly unlikely that Sony will
>> go back to MIPS, and it's out of question for Microsoft to abandon
>> their investment in Xenon, given that they own the IP for the
>> processor and use this to their advantage in order to fab the
>> processors on whichever foundry offers better prices (and they still
>> subsidise the hardware costs...), and have a deep culture for
>> backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Anyway, all IMHO, and of course I might be wrong, but I believe those
>> arguments (history, dev kit investment, IP) are sound.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> A.
>>
>>
>

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