John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, I think that a MIPS port may have more success than a powerpc  
> port for the simple matter that MIPS is so well understood in academia  
> that a decent emulator that emulates a real system can be found  
> relatively easily, and failing that the architecture is simple enough  
> that one, sufficiently motivated, could write a MIPS emulator to the  
> proper specs

it depends....

If yoou think of the opportinity to run OpenSolaris in wlan routers, 
a MIPS port will have more success in case it is able to run with a
limited amount of RAM and in case that there will also be drivers for
FLASH memory.

J?rg

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