Graeme Fowler wrote:
> Plus I've never seem Windows running on a MIPS chip, nor on a PPC. And as
> that's what the vast bulk of installed routers[0] are running on, it would
> require a massive rewrite.
Aye, PPC support was quietly dropped during the life of NT4, and the small
collection of other non-intel they originally "supported" seems to have vanished
with the advent of 2k
Good. Let them get locked into single vendor dependance and see what happens if
Intel goes tits-up.
> Seriously for a moment: although this Pandemonium gadger will eventually
> turn up, I really don't think it's going to be the big issue it's being
> made out to be at the minute. Think "modchip". Think "workaround". More
> importantly, think "bollocks to 'em, I'll run something else instead."
As far as I can see, the only feasible way for {some-software} to read
{some-hardware} in any modern OS is through an abstraction layer of some sort
(an OS kernel, or some kind of hardware servicing API like directX, or whatever)
Which means the response (some-software) expects from the palladium chip can be
emulated by a Linux kernel module. QED.
Expect the announcement of GNUlladium imminently :-)
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Seanie
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