Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:13:50 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux |
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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 01:22:05PM +0100, jens@pinguin.conetix.de wrote: > [...] unless some invents replicators (which would kind of upset our > economy anyway :) hardware will never be as cheap to produce as > software. Because software doesn't use itself up.
Computer hardware replication is not as hard as general replication. Various speculations crop up: biomolecular, nanotech, factory in a suitcase. I have a few ideas of my own too ;-)
And there's always the possibility of really cheap, extremely reconfigurable hardware.
> On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 06:30:57PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > For now, try FPGAs. They're large enough to hold small processors and > > motherboard glue logic (tie a few together) and fast enough for things > > like PCI and Gigabit Ethernet (barely). Prices vary. > > <a href="put something in here">where?</a>
comp.arch.fpga
-- Jamie
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