ferrellsl wrote:
The enitre argument that endian-ness is the reason that MorphOS will never be ported to x86 is ridiculous. Several operating systems have made the leap to x86 without any problems whatsoever. OSX is one example. Even Windows NT went the opposite direction and was ported to PPC many years ago. It languished due to lack of interest until Microsoft finally stopped supporting and developing it.
You cannot compare OS X or NT with MorphOS in that regard. Programs and the OS itself share common structures, a 68k application cannot work in a x86 OS unless it is individually boxed (the approach the AROS guys are trying now).
The shared structs are a heritage of the old AmigaOS (and not a bad thing as long as you stay in the same endianess).
On OS X or NT structs are not shared, thus there's no enianess trouble.
If you really want a MorphOS-like operating system to run on your x86 hardware, then I suggest OSX.
While OS X is a quite fine OS it is IMO *very* different to MorphOS: On OS X the User should not control the system (but there's not much need for that anyway, OS X does it for you) and while very nice in appearence it is a slow ressource hog (which only feels fast due to massive hardware power). IMO good to work with, but also a bit boring.
