That's just it, being a programmer I know that endian issues aren't really a justification. The next generation Amiga from Commodore was to be based on an a HP PA RISC chip. My biggest guess here is that it was done to keep us locked in to a motorola architecture and a lot of the hardware people involved were trying to stay competitive with Mac and following Apple's lead..
Anyone who believes the choice to stay away from intel was an endian issue obviously wasn't aware of the hardware politics at the time. The PC at the time wasn't advanced enough to give me Amiga competition, it's competition was the Mac.. This is not the case today..
The Amiga OS needs procesor independence to survive and thrive today.. Especially with 64 bit processors out their now (LOL okay the powerPC is 64 bit, but is the OS that supports it on the Amiga??)
KennyR wrote:
bloodline wrote:
The choice of PPC was to lock the user into a specific and very expensive platform.
But also to avoid endian problems, the same problems that make it nigh impossible for AROS as it is to have integrated 68k emulation. Phase5's and so later Amiga's decision to use PPC wasn't just based on greed for a hardware market or anti-x86 religion.
