Re: Just my 2 penny worth..

[Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>]

Stephen.Usher@earth.ox.ac.uk%INTERNET wrote:
> 
> >NOTE: I'm not gonna reply to everyone else's replies; too many of 'em,
> >      but I will address it all here.
> 
> Hmm.. I seem to have stirred up a right hornet's nest. :-)
> 
> >
> > >Wow! The MiNT mailing list hasn't been this active ever, from what I can
> > >remember, and that after about 3 years of hardly anything on it at all.
> >
> >Nice to see you getting involved again.
> >
> >I seem to remember your SCC is the only broken part in your TT?
> >Check out a shop specialized in surface-mount repairs and get it
> >sucked out and replaced by an AMD am85c30 or Zilog z85230.
> >You won't regret it! ;-)
> 
> Well.. this is the second Z85C30 my TT's gone through.. they last about 10
> hours equivalent use before they die.
> 
> I can't really get much involved now as my TT's 300 miles away acting as a
> mail machine for my parents (UUCP mail using linux). However, I can give
> moral support and stir the pot now and again.

Well well well.

If this is the case I really don't see what we are discussing here.
You have posted lots of suggestions for a new operating system, but
can't contribute.

We already have some people working on Linux/68k (even on
Linux/mc68000!),
people trying to enhance MiNT without having to throw away the fruits
of 10 years of TOS, and even somebody trying to build something
completely new (Fenix).

I don't see anybody working on all of your ideas, maybe except in
the form of a TOS/GEM emulation box for Linux/68k.

BTW: this mailing list really gets a bit noisy. It's hard to find
information relevant to the *actual* kernel development, filesystems
etc. amongst all these "why can't we do this or that" mails. This
is really annoying.


regards, jr