| From: | Sam Jordan |
| Date: | 08 Dec 99 at 18:19:49 |
| Subject: | Re: [warpup] Re: Test |
Am 08-Dez-99 schrieb Kolbj�rn Barmen:
>> I don't agree. Why would someone buy a POP box if not to do something with
>it ?
>Exactly.
>And so far noone has been keen making POP-boxes, not even for linux.
The POP project is pushed by both IBM and LinuxPPC Inc (a Linux port
already exists, but isn't available yet). So you shouldn't fear that
no boxes will come out. POP is supposed to become the home platform for
the Linux community. Several companies already have announced to
build computer systems based on POP.
>> And the POP Box was shown on the Cologne Show, standing on the booth of
>Amiga
>> and H&P...
>We have seen alot of boxes standing around. Very rarely see them run.
>And who knows what this will cost, and even as it ships we will suffer from
>the
>same problems you fins on mac.. lack of drivers for the cool hardware.
Drivers aren't that much of a problem anymore for Linux, even the
graphics board manufacturers themselves started to write Linux drivers
recently. And as lots of drivers are open source (XF86) it would be no
problem to port them to AMIGA. And besides that: it should be clear,
that an AOSPPC first would only support one or two graphics boards.
It is absolutely important to restrict the amount of graphics cards,
because otherwise it would take ages until the drivers are written.
And at the time the choice has to be done, the available drivers for
Linux are certainly one major argument.
Seeing the situation we have *now* we should be very happy to be able
to use one or two decent 3d accelerated graphics boards (with fast
bus access) with AOSPPC. I don't care if the graphics board is not
the fastest there exists, I also don't care if the processor is not
the fastest there exists. All I want is a modern *architecture*
which is at least state-of-the-art, and which makes fun to plan with.
I don't intend to join the PC-attitude by throwing away hardware
components every 4 months and replacing them by new components.
Instead I prefer to try to get out the max of what I have.
>Speaking of.. what is is this PowerOS, is this what Met@Box is/was hoping to
>get running on their cards? Did someone buy pOS of Pro-Dad? :)
PowerOS is a project of someone which recently started to program in C
and thought that an OS would be a good starting project, it's still
done AFAIK only by one people. One must be crazy to believe that this
will in any time become anything closely related to an operating system.
And just writing a kernel and a graphics driver is nothing compared
to all the rest which has to be done.
bye