[haiku] Re: Why the MMU?

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:46:34 +0100 CET

> > I personally beleive that desktop PC's are slowly dying out and
> > perhaps could see a distant future where the requirement for 
> > running
> > Haiku on mobile phones, PDA's, GPS units and media players and 
> > other
> > non-desktop devices was a big sell.
> 
> Slow sales of desktops are not because the market is dying, but 
> because 
> it is saturated; or they are being replaced with notebooks, since 
> they 
> are at good prices and equally practical. Other devices are being 
> added 
> to PCs, not replacing them.
> 
> And anyway I'm wouldn't like to replace my PC with a PDA, unless I 
> can 
> connect it to a monitor and a keyboard - turning it into a PC :-)

Not until it's faster at building Haiku :P

François.

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