Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase
On Wed, 2025-09-24 at 01:41 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote:
> 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.
I actually never thought about this but now you're saying it, it absolutely
makes sense. Has it ever been confirmed that Apple shipped different versions
of MacOS X with different PowerPC baselines?
> 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.
The problem was probably that IBM hadn't been really interested in consumer
computing for a long time, so they didn't really invest as much money and
resources into making PowerPC suitable for desktop usecases.
For their servers, customers would just always buy the latest and greatest
stuff and run whatever operating system IBM supported for it.
> Also this one below is also popular:
>
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Good idea. I'll use that then.
Adrian
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