Google Groups Home
Help | Sign in
Message from discussion So long and thanks for all the fish.
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
Rob Kendrick  
View profile
 More options 19 Mar 2007, 14:43
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: Rob Kendrick <n...@rjek.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:42 +0000
Local: Mon 19 Mar 2007 14:43
Subject: Re: So long and thanks for all the fish.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:00:28 -0700, Ams wrote:
>> Well, part of  the reason is the clue above. Two forks
>> of the OS for a minority platform?

> That actually, with respect, is not really the problem (look at how
> many variants of Linux there are and they seem to work,

This is a gross simplification of the the problem:  In the Linux
distribution world, almost all of the software packages, the kernel, and
OS infrastructure is built from identical or near-identical source code.
And where the source isn't identical, other Linux distributions can
cherry-pick from it.  What you end up with is pretty much identical
software delivered arranged slightly differently.  ie: completely
different to the ROL vs CTL versions of RISC OS.

<snip>

>> The galling thing about this was really the fact that when
>> I mentioned that I intended to run the compiler on the A9,
>> the chap at Iyonix though it was amusing - clearly not
>> a problem. I wish I could treat my customers like that!

> Thing is if you mentioned you couldn't get Microsoft Visual C# to run
> on an Apple Macintosh would you expect MS to fix it?

Mac OS is a completely different OS.  This also seems to go against what
you say above in that having two branches of the OS "is not really the
problem".

B.


    Reply to author    Forward  
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message, you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.

Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2008 Google