[openbeos] Re: State of the Union and PPC support

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:46:25 EST (-0500)

> >> This leaves us with 2 big questions:
> >> A) Do we break binary compatibility now and leave everything 
> > > behind 
> >> and,
> >> B) what PPC machines do we want to support?
> >
> >I am personally about 10% of the BeOS PPC users out there 
> >(exaggeration, I realise). Those of us who still use BeOS PPC (to 
> >actually do work, not to play with; I don't even own an x86) are die
> > -
> >hards enough that it probably doesn't matter what you put us 
> > through.
> >-Nathan
> 
> You are one of those people that wanted the inventor of the phrase 
> "it is dark inside the box" tortured and killed. Aren't you. ;-)

Most definitely.

> Again, then, which machines to support?
> Be supported <G3. Is it still worth while to support them? G3s have 
> been out
> for many years... Of course, an exception would be the BeBox. :-)

It depends. I would like less than G3, because that's what I have, but 
it depends on the ease of porting.
-Nathan


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