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[Matt Porter]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 puetzk6715 at uni.edu wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Justin Vallon wrote:
> 
> > > Matt Porter writes:
> > > > 
> > > > The MAX processor hasn't even been released yet.  When it is, Apple is
> > > > always the cheapest supplier of PowerPC systems.
> > >              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Something needs to be done about this :)
> > 
> > Maybe you'd like them to raise the price?
> 
> No, I think he wants non-apple non-MacOS PPC machines for Linux. They're
> getting hard to find...

Motorola or IBM will be happy to sell you a "non-apple non-MacOS PPC"
machine for Linux, it's just nobody wants to pay the price. :)  A startup
with a very low overhead could probably provide a reasonably priced mobo
with an MPC107 and MPC750 at 400+mhz.  They would want to then sell them to a
system manufacturer which already has volume discount commodity parts in
their facility to build a consumer priced machine.  Selling 1-2 boards to
each homebrew person isn't a business plan that will attract any
investment, a decent volume distribution deal is needed.  Hrm, I wonder
what the licensing cost of OF is or would it be better to do an open
implementation of the standard...
 
--
Matt Porter
mmporter at home.com
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.


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