Mainstream HW vs. Custom Niche HW

[OlafS3]

Only a simple question to you. It is a nice graph with a "booming" MorphOS community but where are the users that are registrating their systems? On Morphzone are not many new users visible. How do you explain that?

[OlafS3]

I think I can remember Geit estimating it would need 5 years to port MOS to another platform (X86 or ARM) and that would be 5 years without any updates because all would be busy with the migration. So obviously MOS was never designed to be (easy) portable like f.e. Aros. My final conclusion is MOS will (propably) never be ported to a different architecture because of lack of resources. For people that can live with PPC it is a good choice, when you want something to run on modern new standard hardware you only have the option to use Aros.

[OlafS3]

No I do not want to say anything bad about it. It is a very good OS for the hardware it is designed for. Propably much better optimized than Aros and with a very good 68k integration. Nothing bad to say about it. But a complete architecture change is not very propable (because of needed resources)

[OlafS3]

How do you mean "no transition"? X86 and PPC in one system?

[OlafS3]

Do not give up hope and wait and see :-)