| [Web] TeamAROS bounty program updated | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 23-Jan-2004 02:30 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 79 comments
View flat
View list |
The teamAROS has set three new objectives in their bounty program:
- PCI driver, ata device and support of fat32.
|
|
| List of all comments to this article |
| TeamAROS bounty program updated : Comment 77 of 79 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Seehund on 27-Jan-2004 16:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 75 (Olegil):
Uhm, how do you support only a subset of PC motherboards?
Was that a rhetorical question?
Less than ALL PC (or PPC) motherboards = a subset of PC (or PPC) motherboards.
Is there any OS and any OS vendor out there which does NOT support only a subset of hardware? Apart from AmigaDE.... ;)
Remember that a PC motherboard is only in production for about 3 months.
This is another strength of the PC side, and we can only hope that the PPC side will catch up in product development and release cycle speed.
But chipsets and onboard components are in production, sold and used for much longer than that. The supported subset of motherboards is basically defined on its own by the used components, not by trademarks or model numbers of mobos like "the new Abit K7-XYZ2000-B Extra Edition".
OR continous work on supporting new motherboards as long as OS4 is in development and active life.
That's essential, and I hope this is a rather obvious aspiration, regardless of whether we're talking about Hyperion's PPC OS4 or [somebodyelse's] x86 OS[whatever version number].
What's the big difference between making a custom x86 and making a custom ppc?
Is there any? They would both be dead ends, IMO.
Wouldn't you still be as active in your crusade if the AmigaOne had a P4 instead of a G4/G3?
Only developing the OS/drivers for hardware that's also sold by hypothetical licensees and only allowing people to buy their hardware from these licensees would kill the OS just as certainly on x86 as it will on PPC.
IMO that probability P(dead-as-a-dodo) currently approaches 1, but hey, let's hope it's just 0.5 and do something really really stupid and counterproductive like compulsory hardware licensing just because taking extra risks for no benefit at all to the company, the product and the customers is so much fun... :P |
|
| List of all comments to this article (continued) |
|
- User Menu
-
- About ANN archives
- The ANN archives is powered by #AmigaZeux. It was updated daily (news last: 22-Oct-2004; comments last: 18-May-2005).
ANN.lu was created, previously owned and maintained by Christian Kemp, www.ckemp.com.
- Contribute
- Not possible at this time!
- Search ANN archives
- Advanced search
- Hosting
- ANN.lu was hosted by Dreamhost. Sign up through this link, mention "ckemp" as referrer and he will get a 10% commission on any account you purchase.
Please show your appreciation for any past, present and future work on ANN.lu by making a contribution via PayPal.
|
