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Offline KThunder

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Re: Amiga OS - Why on custom architecture?
« on: June 17, 2005, 11:23:43 PM »
everyone makes such a big deal about endianism and its really not that bad. as in the case of aros the entire os is being rewritten from the ground up. you can write the math and memory routines anyway you want. any old software can either be emulated (uae handles endian crap pretty well) or recompilled if the source code is availlable.
think about it this way linux runs on cpus from x86 to 68k to ppc(which can be either way) to sparc alpha etc. all without concern to endianism.
i/o routines simply format data in a standard way. and all internal memory data structures are handled by the kernal.
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Re: Amiga OS - Why on custom architecture?
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2005, 11:28:17 PM »
btw i think that aros is the only bright light that is shinning and has been for some time. i really dont care who owns the trademarks etc. as long as they dont get in the way.

uae is anouther bright light. its kind of the present way to continue using amiga technology. if your amigas floppy or disk drive fails it will cost you quite a bit to replace it with anouther used one that will probably fail soon too.

the way i look at it whoever owns amiga can spend tons of money to produce a product that will sell in relatively low numbers and not support it well, or they can let the pc industry continue to pour billions of dollars into r and d and write an os that will take full advantage of it.
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