Re: Avatar

[stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)]

In article <1lbhunINNl9k@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

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>>A secondary benefit is that you avoid both Intel and Motorola and
>>all the silliness that goes with them; the Avatar will not immediately
>>be PC-ized or Mac-ized and subsumed by those worlds.  It's also worth
>>noting that with the success of the Super Nintendo, there are a lot
>>of good 65816 programmers out there.
>
>This is sheer nonsense.  Maybe we can get some of the SNES programmers
>to write Pagemaker, unix applications, etc in assembly.  Right.
>
>BTW, those "really good 65816 programmers" you note are mostly writing
>Super NES code now.  Do you really think that they'd want to change?

	I don't know if assembly language is the way to go, but I
wouldn't say that SNES programmers couldn't or wouldn't be able to
write utilities.

	Basically, I think it boils down to where the money is.  If I
could get 35k a year programming the SNES, it's a bit more enticing
than programming the GS on royalties.  If the Avatar is a success, and
writing software becomes profitable, I don't think it'll matter what
language the people have to write in...

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