[openbeos] Re: State of the Union and PPC support
- From: "Thijs Withaar" <t.t.withaar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:45:27 +0100
Newos has once run on a PPC, but doesn't anymore.
if i understand correctly there's really some work to be done.
however newos is developed with multi platform use in mind,
so there won't be any 'unsolvable' problems you'll run into when
trying to port it to PPC..
greetz,
Thijs
> > 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.
>
> Well, I never actually ran BeOS PPC, so backwards compatibility isn't a
big
> issue for me, but I now do own a new Mac (which doesn't run BeOS R5), and
I
> would very much like to try running OBOS on it. I noticed there is
> apparently quite a bit of PPC code in the NewOS CVS (er, Perforce?)...does
> anyone know if it actually boots or anything?
>
> -Henry Mason
>
>
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