Matt Porter wrote: > The interesting thing I find in the whole "opening the hardware" thing > is that IBM has had an open CHRP design in the Longtrail available for > anybody to do a run and I think it's only been two vendors who bothered > to > make a limited run of the boards. You Longtrail folks out there can > correct me... :) Oh, and Mot. SPS has had a Yellowknife reference > design (and eval boards of the design) available for a long time with > nobody jumping on it. That's a CHRP design w/ a 750.
Hey Matt, tell whoever's got those eval boards that I'll be happy to give 'em a good home! I've even got plenty of disk, memory, and other goodies for them! THey'll be happy here! Very happy! :) And I do know about the Longtrail design; I've got it stashed on several boxes at work and here, but never really got around ot actually *looking* at it or contemplating what could be done with it. Not really a missed opprotunity, I don't think, since it's still a usable design, so if anyone wants to play with a Longtrail, lemme know. I want in on it. :) > The difference is that IBM is making a PR event out of it and is willing > to throw a little money at making some relationships with manufacturers, > I > suppose. Sounds good to me... IBM's in it for the money, though, mostly. But that's how IBM's always been. Oh well, they may not make much money offa me on boards/processors, but they sure as hell get a good chunk of change from disks. (I *swear* by IBM DCHS/DCAS/DHFS/DHSD/UltraStar/DeskStar/etc disks! Only ones I use!) > With LinuxPPC, Inc.'s latest press release, sounds like the production > of these boards is a done deal. Heh. That's what we thought about the K6.. and the K6/2.. and the K6/3.. or have we all forgotten those production disasters? ;P (Some of us didn't care, I however, do. The K6/3 has some principles and design things that would be *NICE* in a PowerPC.) It may be a disaster, it may not be.. all we can do is wait and see. -prj
