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You are not qualified to make that statement!
All evidence (and as indicated by IBM, numerous posters, Microsoft, etc.), you don't have a clue about getting an OS ported to a given procesor. Windows (curent NT based systems) uses (or did use) a HAL (hardware Abstraction Layer) in order to run on different processor types (x86, MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC). Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD already run on many more diferent and varied processors than that. MacOS runs on a Mach or BSD kernel, thus allowing it to be ported to a new chip architecture relatively easily (if they chose to support Cell).

As to what runs on a given processor (Cell in this case), some of the contributors to Linux happen to work at IBM and probubly contributed the required kernel level code to achieve this. The same holds true for any other processor that is supported by one of the Open Source kernels (Linux, BSD).

How does your own ignorence of CPU's and systems architecture negate the knowledge of hundreds of more qualified people than yourself?
Posted by: B.O.F.H.   Posted on: 03/22/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Pure BS.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/21/06
Are you so sure about your statement?............  Can you hear me | 03/21/06
A very nice burn on someone with no ax to grind  GoPower | 03/21/06
If it halfway runs in an emulation...  Tony Agudo | 03/21/06
The "port" for Windows WAS already done.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Bullcrap?  tty0 | 03/21/06
Yes indeed, read it!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Ummm... Afraid you are a moron.  nucrash | 03/21/06
Your mother is a moron??? Whatever...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Extend and Embrace?  nucrash | 03/22/06
Yup, and toads may learn to fly.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
How are you so sure?  thunderdome1 | 03/22/06
Better yet No_Ax, where in the article does it say what you claim?  Zogg | 03/22/06
Unlike you, I read more than ZDNet...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
But you don't seem to have understood it.  Zogg | 03/22/06
No, it does NOT support SPUs.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Use the Source, Luke!  Zogg | 03/22/06
I have to back up a tiny fraction.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Because you asked so nicely...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Uhhhh yeah!  NonmaskableInt | 03/22/06
You are right, it's poor emulation..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Give it time  thunderdome1 | 03/23/06
You are not qualified to make that statement!  B.O.F.H. | 03/22/06
Windows on Cell  ITTech001 | 03/21/06
With Cell, can one actually get . . .  Plain Logic | 03/21/06
Yes and No...  nucrash | 03/21/06
RE: Yes and No...  richdave | 03/22/06
Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn't...  Zogg | 03/22/06
Been done...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
NO NO NO NO!!!!!!  nucrash | 03/22/06
Sorry, you need to read some facts.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Cell != xbox360  cellmokney | 03/28/06
Calm down, No_Ax . . .  Plain Logic | 03/21/06
What a clown, Windows was done long before Linux  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Sure.. and MS also had the first 64 bit OS  nucrash | 03/22/06
Your silly ranting doesn't change anything.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
And yet you said...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
PS - Don't forget...  Tony Agudo | 03/22/06
Yes, I think the port was crap.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
It's all about the applications, people.  ab@... | 03/21/06
It is plain to see most the posters here  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Clueless?  ITTech001 | 03/22/06
Yes, you have taken way to many drugs...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
RE: Yes, you have taken way to many drugs...  richdave | 03/22/06
PULEASE enlighten yourself  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
OK.. So which remark is inaccurate?  ITTech001 | 03/22/06
None of those fit at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Sounds Like Another Itanic in the Making  jjworleyeoe | 03/22/06
How this isn't Itanic  nucrash | 03/22/06
Wow, all the back and forth bashing  Boot_Agnostic | 03/22/06
Nothing wrong with that happy [nt]  Omch'Ar | 03/22/06
Since IBM developers THEMSELVES contribute to kernel code ...  George Mitchell | 03/22/06
In a way that is true...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/22/06
Supporting doesn't mean making use of...  D-cat | 03/22/06

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