[Files] AwebPPC released | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Jun-2002 05:45 GMT by Mark Olsen | 221 comments View flat View list |
AWebPPC for MorphOS has been released.
After 7 days of work, AWebPPC is finally available for the public.
Enjoy this fast PPC browser.
Downloads:
Binaries (622kB) - Readme
Sources (1536kB) - Readme
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AwebPPC released : Comment 218 of 221 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Samface on 20-Jun-2002 17:07 GMT | In reply to Comment 217 (Frodon): Welcome back, Frodon.
I'm sorry but I think you missed the point, we're trying to define the Amiga *platform*, not just the hardware. You see, defining the platform by the hardware used would make Linux an Amiga OS and all Linux 68k/PPC specific executables Amiga applications, which they are not. Linux is it's own platform regardless of the hardware it runs on. What would you call the Elate RTOS by TAO running on a Palmtop, a Palm OS? Well, that wouldn't make sense, now would it? You define a platform by the OS, not the hardware. Sure, Amiga was a hardware manufacturer creating their own Amiga hardware once but that's simply Amiga hardware, not the Amiga *platform*.
Amiga Inc. has gone over to making software only as they have learned this lesson the hard way, custom hardware only limits the potentials of the platform and that's why they intend to free the platform from such custom hardware boundries (for example, removing the OS custom chip dependencies as their first step).
Virtual processor technology and emulation has proven to us that hardware isn't the limiting factor of a platform anymore. Operating systems, on the other hand, defines the platform by it's services provided to the user as well as the applications using it. Linux, for example, makes alot of Linux specific applications compatible with any hardware where Linux is present through a simple recompilation. That's why you cannot define Linux by the hardware you run it on, the same goes for all platforms. |
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