On 12/11/2007, Eric Wood <ewood at izoom.net> wrote: > > In the end, then, why not pick some Mac or IBM reference platform and then > worry about compatibility with others down the road? Is the present "crisis" > simply to pick the reference platform? I don't see why any should be ruled > out at this point. I'd say get it working well on, say, a Mac Mini, and then > branch out to include other PPC platforms as time and resources allow.
I think the main "crisis" is that the only new hardware you can get that's at least desktop/workstation level comes from IBM now that Apple has stopped producing PowerPC-based systems. Basing your porting work around a dead system seems doomed :) That's why I mentioned that I think the PS3, or IBM Power hardware would be a better target. At least those wouldn't be "relatively wasted" investments. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
