MorphOS on x86???

[Hammer]

Not the most scalable either, as you can find chips like PPC, ARM and MIPS running in a wider variety of devices.

X86 scales from embedded micro-controllers to super computers. Majority of X86s falls between netbooks to servers.

From 2005 market share(from memory)
~700 million ARM
~200 million X86
~140 million MIPS
~60  million PPC

PS; I need to find an updated market share stats.

[Hammer]

Painkiller wrote:
I would rather see MOS on PS3 than any other platform. Here are a few reason:

-Cheap
-Very powerfull processor
-Will be available for many years to come
-Many people already owns it

Only thing bothering is the fact that accelerated GFX are disabled when using other OS with PS3. This could be over come by writing an acceleration driver for the SPEs, but that kind of think would eat up a lot of development resources.

Transgamming made Swiftshader product that renders DX3D 9b on X86 CPUs.

[Hammer]

downix wrote:

Hammer wrote:

Not the most scalable either, as you can find chips like PPC, ARM and MIPS running in a wider variety of devices.

X86 scales from embedded micro-controllers to super computers. Majority of X86s falls between netbooks to servers.

From 2005 market share(from memory)
~700 million ARM
~200 million X86
~140 million MIPS
~60  million PPC

PS; I need to find an updated market share stats.

Not that much different, save MIPS now has a Chinese firm pushing it hard in that rapidly growing economy.  PPC has also grown.  

x86 does scale, but not as completely as other options for a reasonable price.  New MIPS netbook announced last week, $100.  New x86 netbook announced last week, same features, $350.  
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They don't have the same features. Have you factored in the GPU?

According to http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10038054-1.html
This $100 MIPS based netbook comes with 400Mhz CPU, 64MB RAM, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, three USB ports, 1GB flash storage and an SDHC card slot.

This is matched by AMD Geode based OLPC.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9
Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 comes with Intel Atom CPU(1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB with HT), Intel  Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950, 512MB RAM and a 4GB solid state drive. Starting from $350 USD.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4526797348.html
(MIPS based )Loongson 2F 900Mhz manufactured by STMicroelectronics
Memory -- 512MB DDR2
Flash storage -- 8GB or 16GB flash G-Key
USB -- 3 x ports (one used for G-Key). No USB 2.0 support is claimed, although the 2F in theory supports it
SD -- 1 x SD HC port
Display -- 10-inch, 1024 x 600 LCD powered by Silicon Motion SM502 (16MB RAM)
Networking -- 10/100Mbps Ethernet (RJ45)
WiFi -- 802.11 b/g
Starting from $450 USD.

So, which one can play Quake 3 OpenGL?