Mainstream HW vs. Custom Niche HW

[haywirepc]

Can someone explain WHY they have not supported G5 yet? I have never understood how morphos works on g3 and g4 but not g5. G5 would allow a huge increase in cpu speeds and performance. Maybe its just because I never programmed for power pc... But I don't get why this has been a big issue... Or why there has been reluctance on the part of the morphos developers to do. Dosn't seem logical to me to ignore the fastest cpu your os was designed for...?

Steven

[haywirepc]

Still a great question and still not answered. Big endian. Small endian. Why not g5? Why not multicore support? And the bigger question to ALL amiga NG os devlelopers is this: Why not SMP? The goal of os 3.x api long now has been duplicated. How to write extenstions to that api to allow multi-core.

They all sleep on this very important question. Its SAD.

Yes hard to implement in current api. Someone must say that now so many machines have 4, 8, or even 16 cores. And all amiga os systems ignore this. Someone needs to write a new api.