The thing with Apple PPC hardware is that it's still fairly expensive for a machine whose only use can be OS development. After talking a bit with Shawn Walker, we concluded it may be worthwhile to investigate the Playstation3 as a potential target.
My reasoning is that people buy PS3s to play games, so if we already have instructions on bootstrapping Polaris on it, they have a development platform incidentally. It's also more likely that people will have the development platform and come looking for us than if they come looking for us and step one for them is "drop a couple hundred dollars on an old mac that's useless for anything other than this project" On 11-Nov-07, at 10:56 AM, Eric Wood wrote: > I also second this sentiment. The Apple PPC platform is most > numerous by > far for end users, and then it's the various IBM POWER machines. I > should think used PowerPC Macs and IBM machines are the way to go. > > Eric > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 11:17 -0600, Jerry Kemp wrote: >> +1 >> >> Ken Mays wrote: >>> What hasn't been said and should be said is the achievement of >>> Bill & >>> >> Raquel Buck as a "small" business in being able to roll out the >> Pegasos >> and EFIKA technology. The Pegasos II was a pretty nice piece of PPC >> hardware after being an Amiga developer/advocate since the 1980s. I >> considered it the next Amiga clone. >>> >>> I'm sure it was a costly venture and the machine is like a >>> historical >>> >> piece in history. Doesn't mean anyone else couldn't venture down that >> road... >>> >>> Tsinghua Tongfang (China OEM) is responsible to build out new EFIKAs >> by Jan 2008 (some people may already have it). >>> >>> If you want hardware, why not look at Apple PowerPC G4 hardware?? >> There is a lot of PowerPC G3/G4 hardware out on the eBay channel. >>> ~ Ken Mays >>> >>> >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> powerpc-discuss mailing list >>> powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> powerpc-discuss mailing list >> powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
