On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Shawn wrote: > If this is the case, and to help to boost performace better, wouldn't it > be easier/better to develop more towards today's processors/architecture > than to keep "legacy" systems in as well? Just a thought... Yes and no. Let's say I have my m68k Mac chugging along, but I need some of the new Reiser stuff. What am I supposed to do? What if they stopped developing today for m68k, and 3 months from now a much needed patch came out. Am I hosed? At the same time, I'd like it if the kernel came in an x86 only package, so I didn't have to download the RISC/S390/AS400/Sparc/Amiga/PPC/... just to build an x86 kernel (most users would want this). Seems kinda silly to unpack megs of useless code. Thanks for the advice on the patches. I was wondering how the kernel could sustain itself the way it's being managed. Insightful stuff. -Brian