@ppcamiga1
When they shifted to OSX and the Unix model they messed up the Mac DOS. Not very much exposed to the user but Mac OS had DOS path separators just like AmigaOS and MSDOS did. In the Mac case, easily seen by getting info on a file, where the magic symbol is a colon. Unix uses a slash. Totally different. Somehow they were able to make it compatible with the Mac OS sandbox emulation built in.
It's interesting that the x86 people didn't like PPC because it wasn't x86 yet, but yes you are right, in that the transition to PPC would end up helping a transition to x86. Though now ARM would be in favour and a more reachable target. While on PPC, given current trends, porting it to little endian could be an idea so it becomes more portable. But, of course, that goes against the whole system design. They would need to AROS it in the least. Then 68K and OS4 apps would need to be sandboxed like on OSX. Last edited by Hypex on 13-Aug-2021 at 01:59 AM.
|
7 crawler(s) on-line.
120 guest(s) on-line.
1 member(s) on-line.
Hypex 
