Andre Beckedorf wrote:
> | I wasn't really reasonable when I undertook the ATA project. I think
> | this project, if run collectively, can be reasonable. Or rather, I
> | think this is the most reasonable future of the platform. Rewriting
> | NewtonOS, rebuilding hardware are much more complex directions.
>
> Paul, another thing I noticed somewhere: Wasn't there a preliminary
> unfinished support for 16/24/32 bpp graphics in NewtOS 2.1?
For certain graphics functions and somesuch, yes, there is (32bpp).
> Another thing that I think could cause headaches is the endianess problem,
> if a big endian emulator needs to be written. I thought that all newer
> StrongARM CPUs still feature support for both big and little endian
> operation mode. Wouldn't this make the endianess wrapper obsolete?
Assuming that one can get supervisor mode to the CPU and switch the setting.
Which would probably be necessary anyways :)
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