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    SubjectRe: Flame Linus to a crisp!
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    On Thu 24 Apr 03 16:45, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > If open hardware is what you want, FPGA's are actually getting to the
    > point where you can do real CPU's with them. They won't be gigahertz, and
    > they won't have big nice caches (but hey, you might make something that
    > clocks fairly close to memory speeds, so you might not care about the
    > latter once you have the former).
    >
    > They're even getting reasonably cheap.

    The big problem with FPGAs at the moment is that the vendors want you to use
    their tools, which come with license agreements that limit your options in
    arbitrary ways, otherwise this would be peachy.

    Regards,

    Daniel
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