John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I think that a MIPS port may have more success than a powerpc
> port for the simple matter that MIPS is so well understood in academia
> that a decent emulator that emulates a real system can be found
> relatively easily, and failing that the architecture is simple enough
> that one, sufficiently motivated, could write a MIPS emulator to the
> proper specs
it depends....
If yoou think of the opportinity to run OpenSolaris in wlan routers,
a MIPS port will have more success in case it is able to run with a
limited amount of RAM and in case that there will also be drivers for
FLASH memory.
J?rg
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