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Moving An Embedded Project From x86 to PowerPC
An anonymous reader writes "This series on embedded development shows you how to migrate a project prototype from x86 to PowerPC. This initial installment explains the realities and rationale of the project: it introduces the robotic submarines that were the start of the project (and where they came from), and describes the Linux/GCC development environment and the bare-bones Kuro Box PowerPC development board."
No.
x86 is not the end all and be all of computers.
It fails at things like power to mips. Just remember the fastest computer Blue/Gene does not run x86.
Even Microsoft is dropping the X86 for the new XBox.
x86 is not dead yet thanks to AMD but it will be interesting to see what the future holds.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
It's a shame he hosted his project on Windows, I would have like to have seen it on OS X or Linux.
Where do you see that he hosted it on Windows? He hosted it on a Kuro Box, which is a Linux-based PPC device. The only role Windows plays is running the setup program to load the Kuro system image.
Actually, you can even get around that. Someone on the Kuro forum put together instructions for loading the system image from a Mac.
The Kuro Box is a pretty neat toy in it's own right. If you want to play around with Linux development on a PPC platform on the cheap, it's certainly the way to go.