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Re: AROS for the PPC Mac?
« on: August 10, 2010, 10:09:13 PM »
While there is a [SIZE=-1]native PPC [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]version [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]of AROS for Sam440EP and Sam440EP Flex based computers, the MAC version is Linux kosted.

You have to wonder why this is, since the version for Acube motherboards shouldn't be that different than what would be required by a PPC Mac version. Perhaps the fact the Apple hardware is not completely documented has held up the creation of a native Apple port.
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Re: AROS for the PPC Mac?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2010, 11:00:39 PM »
Quote from: Piru;574238
Both Linux and *BSD source code is available, as well as documentation to many of the chips used in these machines.

The systems being undocumented is largely a myth.

Well, your opinion on this I would definitely trust. I've always wondered where MorphOS developers got the information to create the  direct hardware calls.

But where  did Linux and BSD developers originally get the info?

And why isn't there a native Mac AROS port?
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