Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase

On 21/9/25 10:43 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> You're probably right. I used that weird naming scheme as I was never
> 100% sure what the various baselines are. POWER is really complicated
> with many different architecture baselines with and without AltiVec
> and so on.

It hasn't helped the Power ISA. I recall wondering why Apple boot CDs 
only worked work on specific machines. At the time I thought Apple were 
doing it on purpose even though one CD to suit many machines made more 
sense to me. But the wrong CD would crash which I thought looked 
unprofessional. Only later when I had more experience with PPC and Linux 
with an AmigaOne/MAI Teron did I find out how bad the compatibility was.

Where as I grabbed a random Windows CD and it boots on every PC I threw 
it at. I suppose compatibility wasn't in the budget for PPC. They could 
have taken a leaf from 68K.


Also this one below is also popular:

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