Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 1997 02:06:39 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Elijah L. Wright" <> | Subject | RE: free hardware platforms |
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>> Forget it. We already had several groups trying to create free >>hardware platforms. Few of them ever produced something usefull. >Probably the only non 8bit was the NS32016 based box with free schematics >etc. Nowdays its even less feasible. You need a good million dollars >plus to lay out build, case, approval pass and ship a system. > >Alan
Speak you of the pc-532 machines? National Semiconductor 32532, as I remember.. =) NetBSD and Minix run on those, i think... but I think there were less than 250 of the boards ever made, and probably waaay less than that were ever soldered together and running. They are neat, though... look at www.netbsd.org/Ports/pc532/index.html for a summary of the platform, if you're interested.
Some guy at MIT or someplace like that up north was designing Alpha-based workstations. I'm pretty sure it was MIT, and pretty sure that the guy's name was Smith. First initial J? dunno.
later, --elijah
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