m68k

After reading this article and learning that there is (more or less) an m68k port to haiku in the works by Francois Rinowhatshisname, I just had to write about it.

First off, why is he working on a 68k port in the first place? There are many more important things his efforts could be focused on, such as filesystem tuning and catching kernel crashes on the x86 and PPC platforms. And why 68k when it makes so much more sense to use an archetecture that is still being maintained (By SIMD instructions and whatnot) like ARM or Cell or even MIPS? Every single computer you can find with an m68k core will be older then ten years old (Unless you count some niche computers, such as the minimig).

After that, why target the Falcon? Atari didn't have nearly the same quality of documentation as Amiga and Comodore had, especially since the Falcon only had a single production year.

Of course, the writer of the article told us why he chose the Falcon, and even though it's an incredibly stupid reason in my oppinion, it's a valid reason. However, the Amiga should not have been crossed off the list so easily. UAE does support MMU and FPU emulation, and most of the better Amiga models had both units. To back up my claim, I submit my system specs as returned by the command System_Information > textfile

CHIPS: CPU 68030/68882fpu/68030mmu, ECS NTSC Agnus, ECS Denise
VERS: Kickstart version 37.175, Exec version 37.132, Disk version 37.71
RAM: Node type $a, attribute $105 (FAST), from $7f00000 to $7ffffff
Node type $a, attribute $303 (CHIP), from $400 to $fffff
BOARDS:
None

I bought this at a frickin' thrift store for less then two sawbucks. Go get laid, Francois.