[Eug-lug] OT: Sun hardware wanted

[Ben Barrett]

POWER is a great platform though, and there are a bunch of non-IBM vendors
making nice boards for the chipset.  I also remember drooling, some years
ago, when I found out that Xilinx had an FPGA that could run 4x PowerPC
cores at 400MHz... Their specs look *great* on embedded platforms too
(temperature & power in particular).
Watch out for the limited video support on earlier macs -- I think that was
back in the 68000-68020 series, like the LC, though.
Amiga fans use an 800Mhz G4 on the top end, from what I've seen, although
there is a lot of overclocking I'm missing...
Check out this, from April 14 earlier this year:
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6404482880.html

Aimless rants aside, I have a lot of respect for the chip family.  I am a
bit sad with AMD's current slip in the race as I've sided with their design
choices, but Intel is just kicking right now with an easy jump to core quad,
sigh...

    Ben


On 11/13/06, ERock23175 at aol.com <ERock23175 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  I thought now that everyone is going over to Intel-style chip sets that
> the PowerPC archetecture was as you put it....dead??? I recall back in the
> high glory days of mac-insider leaks that they had scheduled the G's on
> through a G7.  think it was MacUser mag back in 96'-the same source that =
had
> ACCURATELY...up to date.... mapped the evolution of MacOS (including their
> migration to a kernel based on Next and/or Unix) through MacOS 12! What t=
hey
> never counted on was the return of Steve Jobs, and Apple's subsequent
> regression back to the stone-age point-and-click-dependant section of the=
ir
> R&D dept. If memory serves, we are about 2 or so years behind their
> predictions. I attribute the lag to Mac hanging on to the iMac too long. =
Of
> all of the systems I've seen at the CRRC, 90% of them are iCraps.
>
> -E
>
>
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