thats iggy how we know him, right?
;)P
im curious if his aros ppc fork will share the fate of his appointed ppc custom hardware design. nevertheless, as i wished him luck, i hope it wont. looking at safari-leopard webikt diffs id really love to have some relevant big endian testing platforms. without too much bragging about. better doing.
Interesting you would reference that, as you all failed to respond in any significant numbers, and I ended up collaborating with some like minded Linux enthusiasts to work on a T2080 based laptop.
Funding for the first part of that, the scematics, is essentially complete and Acube has been working on the design of that.
I can thank the commitment of Roberto Innocenti and his friends for that, not Amiga enthusiasts because they always want someone else to shoulder the burden of creating the goods.
Linux enthusiasts don't think like that.
And I've completed projects like this before decades ago with the 68000 and 68020 processors.
I have support from NXP that dates back to the days of Motorola Semi, and have full documentation of a couple of reference design boards (right down to the full board layouts) and the Cadence/Orcad software needed load and manipulate them.
So, what have you all been doing lately? Waiting for a project based on a third rate eMC500v2 based cpu?
I have, and will put my time and effort into directions that make sense.
That was part of a discussion via e-mail that started with Bill Buck over the weekend, about economics and sensible strategic business management.
BTW - That was my major, because there were no IT programs when I started in this field, Business Management.
And my first job offer was from Dr. Fred Hoffstetter, after doing some work/study while still in High School.
Fred eventually became the director of Multi-media Communications at the University of Delaware.
So, does anyone want to compare experiences, productivity, or the length of their penises again?
Thanks to coordination with Mark "Bigfoot" Olsen, Paul "Acill" Rezendes, and David "AmigaDave" Morris we arranged a pre-release demo of MorphOS 3.10 at last year's AmiWest.
Again, I ask you all, what do you do with your spare time? Outside of work, I study for my MBA, and work on projects like these.
And I'm not particularly thin skinned, but if I set my mind to it, I usually get what I'm aiming for.
So, you all still waiting for third party salvation?
It ain't happening, we need to take it upon ourselves because no one with a reasonable sense of economics and good business priorities would come anywhere near this community.
Btw, a 68K port of Oddesey is rediculous.
And to conclude, big median platforms are disappearing.
What next, you guys going to suggest we recreate those with FPGAs, only to still be stymied by issues related to software coded with little median platforms in mind?
Again, a move to a little median platforms is the only eventual course left to us with any sendibility.
Whether it's bi-endian like Power 9 or some ARM variants, or natively little median like X64, it doesn't matter to me.
I saw the writing on the wall in the '90's and while I didn't like it, I shifted my primary ISA.
My former employer died while still promoting 68K. Some of you seem dead set on that intent as well.