cicero790 wrote:
@downix
In my experience I found it easier working by a desk than walking blindly in traffic.
I don’t believe desktops are out. By the time your small devices are capable of what a power machine can accomplish today, that power machine will accomplish ten times the handheld for a smaller price with the best games and apps following its demand.
I don’t buy your logic here.
You said: Alright, and you're going to hire the people needed to code for the billions of possible combinations of hardware, right?
I said now: Ask sammuraicrow. I think he is implementing that LLVE thing or something that will make AROS very processor independent indeed. I haven’t looked at it. And I don’t understand it, but I think it will be important for the future development.
Finally: This is an Amiga community. If AROS can run the Amiga software then the programs that are liked can be used. Final writer and so on. And it is possible to make better versions because the added power of AROS and the hardware under it.
Have a hard time seeing the end of the world.
The only thing that is sad is that all expert programmers should work on one single OS, but that is a personal opinion. So much more could be accomplished in shorter time that way. But....
You continue to miss the point. The CPU is nothing, nada, irrelevent to the arguement. The arguement above was cheap systems. Well, cheap systems can have the same CPU family, sure, but they likely will have different chipsets, pic controllers, CMOS settings, SATA controllers, networking capabilities, GPU's, DSP's... even multiples of each. To make any OS work with such a large number of possible hardware combinations is not work to be taken so lightly. Look at AROS, even now it has support for a narrow range of hardware.
I did not say Desktops are out. I did say that they are not where the growth is. If you want to release a new platform, the desktop is an also-ran. Microsoft's OS dominance is wearing out due to the desktop becoming an older market, no longer do you have the rapid growth to enable an edge in for a share of the pie. That ship has sailed, much like the workstations did in the 1990's and the MiniComputers in the 1980's. You'd make as much sence demanding a port to the VAX or PDP-11.
The Amiga was about being the next big thing. Frankly, there is no NBT in desktops. There is, however, in smaller, lightweight products. And the Amiga, and MorphOS, are uniquely situated to such markets. Instant-on, multitasking, and scalable. And the weakness of the design, not so relevent anymore once you get to that scale.