From: "Nils Henrik Lorentzen" Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Why not pOS Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:49:05 +0200 Organization: Telenor Online Public Access Message-ID: <34203414.7F54015B@online.no> References: groups/comp.sys.amiga.misc/87994.head <5uqtv6$2pg$1@newserve.gulftel.com> <341b72f5.0@news> <5vg2f3$4f8@pellew.ntu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ti27a02-0005.dialup.online.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i586) Lines: 25 Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!bullseye.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!online.no!not-for-mail James McArthur wrote: > > Johnny C. Kitchens (kitchens@letter.com) wrote: > : > If it were available in a version for PPC, fine. But this is not the > : > case currently, but pOS will soon run on PPC. We have also already > : > offered to do the port of AmigaOS to PPC, but we didn't yet get the > : > license to do that. > : > > > : How long would it take to port it over??? > > Too long.. esp. when someone could just grab the AROS source and recompile > parts of the AmigaOS for the PPC in this manner.. They would of course have to pay a fee for the AROS source, but with GWs income that should be no problem... AROS will BTW be very simple to port to PPC, since it AFAIK only contains one asm file. There was even some talk on the AROS mailinglist about porting it to PPC Linux during WoA in Cologne, to show the portability. AROS will also remain binary compatible on Amiga (unlike pOS), so that no recompilation is needed. Nils Henrik