Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jul 1997 16:22:29 -0600 (MDT) | From | Teunis Peters <> | Subject | Re: The i2o Bus: A Conspiracy Against Free Software? (fwd) |
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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Jason Burrell wrote:
> > Why would you choose PPC though? I think that PPC would be the ideal > > architecture if Apple and IBM got their act together with the > > PREP/CHRP/whatever standards. But until then I think that Alpha is a > > better option because of greater popularity and greater CPU speed. Alpha > > does have the drawback of having 2 different types of BIOS setups which are > > totally incompatible... > > Great point. How much does a DEC Alpha run these days anyway?
Dec is currently dropping prices on their monsters... There's talk of a 233Mhz alpha-station in the $1500 range... Is that good? I don't know.
DEC and Intel are 'at war' [in lawsuits].... Rumors of alliance with AMD and Cyrix to produce cheap alpha clones.... hard to say really.
This applies to linux-kernel area doesn't it? I mean, if Alpha's start dropping in price don't they make good computers for linux?
Ciao! - Teunis
[thinking of upgrading to Alpha and leaving intel nonsense behind...] [but Alpha is PCI based...so maybe i2o will show up there too?]
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