Am 12.11.2007 um 18:00 schrieb Shawn Walker:
> 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
>
