From: "Petr Stehlik" <pstehlik@sophics.cz> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:28 AM To: "VincentRivière" <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr> Cc: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib for ColdFire
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)? Doing the same work for a hardware that doesn't even exist yet is ... how to say that. Not smart?
Because we already have a 68k computer which is very, very fast - Aranym ;-) I really don't see the point in adapting source code or recompile for a new CPU when the virtual CPU is so powerful. The only thing you achieve when doing this is to complicate things, as you still need to support 68k binaries.
On the ColdFire OTOH it's a totally different matter. The hardware is cool and unusual, and while it can't compete in speed it has a lot to offer for people like me who likes to tinker with hardware.
Jo Even