[Rant] osopinion: Close That Open Hardware! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 12-Jun-2002 00:21 GMT by sutro | 169 comments View flat View list |
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Posted by Samface on 13-Jun-2002 07:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 76 (Mikael Burman): Hrm... Hint: POP does not equal open firmware. The POP standard is not the same as an open firmware standard and therefore they'll have to create a HAL and specific hardware drivers for each motherboard. Also, the AmigaOS4 is not intended to run on just POP, it's intended to be compatible with as much PPC hardware as possible, not just POP. The former Phase5 hardware is not POP, the future SharkPPC will not be POP and MAI's future PPC hardware isn't going to be POP either. So, there's nothing POP about the AmigaOS4 and just because it will support one POP based motherboard design, it won't make the AmigaOS4 compatible with all POP hardware designs ever made now and in the future. It's not even possible to accomplish as long as their is no open firmware standard on the POP market, period. |
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