Boardless? What, like, components connected directly to the chassis instead?
That sounds like ass.
Submitted 1 year ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world
Boardless? What, like, components connected directly to the chassis instead?
That sounds like ass.
It’s just the chassis, screen, battery, and keyboard. You would just buy one of their boards separately to go in it, or make one yourself I suppose.
Ah okay, thank you for explaining it to me.
Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?
Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw
To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂
Yeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.
Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.
And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.
Nice to see! Baby steps and all that. Getting RISC-V to a consumer-level state is still a pretty gargantuan task that has a lot of catch-up to do, but it’s walking along its path steadily.
I would have rather seen an ARM Linux board for a more modest cost
If someone who makes ARM hardware wants to make a mainboard, I’d imagine Framework will work with them under the same conditions they’re working with DeepComputing on the RISC-V one.
A $200 board with soldered 8GB RAM and 64GB storage.
MITM0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reminder, you can play QUAKE on RISC-V, wooohoooo