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Originally Posted by drHirudo
Actually, coding for AmigaOS 4 made me love the PPC processors
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Indeed, PPC seems like the nicest RISC ISA, while M68k has the best CISC ISA. So PPC was probably the logical successor.
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and I started collecting PPC based machines.
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Me too! I have lots of Apple PPC hardware, a Pegasos2, a BeBox(!), a Motorola PowerStack, IBM thin clients and dozens of PPC-based NAS (Synology, QNAP), where I ported NetBSD to.
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Originally Posted by drHirudo
You explain it very well. MorphOS feels like another Linux distro
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Agreed. This is true for OS4 as well (ELF shared objects!), but MorphOS is especially affected. I cannot blame the developers, because the only chance to run modern software is to use open source, which is mostly Linux-based.
But turning the whole OS slowly into something GNU-compatible, because it makes porting software and using GNU-tools even easier, is not something I'm too happy about. I love Unix, and I am an official NetBSD developer, but I don't want too much of it on my Amigas.
In the end it doesn't really matter if you use OS4 or MorphOS. I just use it as a conveniently fast solution to have some Amiga-feeling during my daily work (m68k cross-development, E-UAE, emails).