From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Apr 29 06:40:42 2009 Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <49F82246.8080904@freesbee.fr> References: <49F743B1.8030803@freesbee.fr> <1240957935.9590.38.camel@joy> <49F78A7A.9020001@freesbee.fr> <1240985088.4402.13.camel@petr> <49F803C5.9050303@freesbee.fr> <1240993687.4402.60.camel@petr> <49F82246.8080904@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:36:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1241001376.4402.75.camel@petr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: pstehlik@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n3TAegnK017436 Vincent Rivière píše v St 29. 04. 2009 v 11:47 +0200: > Petr Stehlik wrote: > > When programmers are going to spend their time to adapt the existing > > source code to run on a new processor, to adapt operating system, to add > > m68k emulation to it, then why don't they do it the way Apple did and > > move to a more mainstream platform (Apple did it even twice, both time > > successfully - first PPC, then Intel)? > > Because hardware designers are not as much open minded as programmers. Please note that my paragraph above is not about HW designers. It is all about programmers, guys like you or Lonny, who are willing to support a new CPU for MiNT software. If devoting the time, why not do it "right"? I know the answer to this question so don't bother replying :-) I just couldn't resist... Petr