On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 12:04:56 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've got an S3 running a CM version that was supposed to be getting > updates monthly; that stopped almost immediately -- people seem to move > on too quickly. Would have liked that phone to get a bit more life.
The problem is not people moving on quickly but hardware designers moving on. Pentium class PCs ran MS-DOS well, it's quite likely that modern AMD64 PCs can run MS-DOS too although I've never tested it. Modern AMD64 systems run i386 builds of Linux. If you wanted to support all PCs from the 1980's to well past 2000 you could make 2 builds of your software, 8086 and i386. If you wanted to support all PCs from the early 90's to today you only needed i386 and AMD64 builds. During those times hardware interfaces changed but adding new drivers is easier than changing OSs and applications, for example I believe Red Hat backports drivers to their distribution so it can run on newer hardware. So far for Android hardware support has anyone even managed to make the same OS run on 2 consecutive models from the same manufacturer? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
