Then basicly, putting an OS such as Linux on a game machine such as
the dreamcast has only two reasons:
1)Allow an easier port of Linux programs to the Dreamcast enviroment
(Silly excuse. Nothing prevents them of making a compiler that makes
ROM
files instead of ELF)
2)"Because we CAN". That looks like the real reason. And i'm all for it!
;)
Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
The OS evolved for two reasons - get around this problem by
> virtualising the hardware so any machine running that OS has, in effect, a
> known configuration; and provide more advanced services to the user and
> programmer - multitasking, for instance, can't happen without a controlling
> entity such as the OS.
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