On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:53:07AM -0800, perdurabo wrote: > What about the pre-PC era? One of the first computers I had was a > Heathkit H-8 that I built from parts. It took forever and I think that > I'd rather buy a built product, open source or not, whatever's out > there. I think a lot of other people agreed and that's why computer > kits have died off (building your own PC with cards and mobos doesnt > count)
Another candidate for building 6502 based things for fun and ... well, something to do? > In any case, SPARC is an open standard, and I think MIPS is too? > (probably wrong there), Open Firmware is an open standard, we have > open source BIOS solutions. Many have tried, and all have failed due > to varying factors. The only real solutions seems to be to push the > big hardware players into adopting more OSS. Yes, let's encourage companies to make more Mac Editi^w^wOpen Firmware video cards. My Open Firmware video card, made by an unnamed company which specializes in productive unix systems for desktop users and attractively designed hardware, is getting kinda old by modern standards. Newer cards exist, but they're much more expensive than the basic VGA BIOS models used in the average wintel system. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
