Dang. I want one of these! I've wanted a Risc Based workstation for
years, just been unwilling to pay the hefty premium for Apple
equipment. This is better than a mini as it has been designed to take
some standard components and upgrade. Basically they buils a MicroATX
motherboard for PPC. you get 3 PCI slots, but only 2 ATA100 slots.
Still for the price this is a real workstation, unlike the mini.
-Mike
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 02:04, larry price wrote:
> Had a look at the pegasosPPC
> http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
>
> Which is a full on PPC workstation for which specs are fully available.
> And which has been seeded to developers fo various Linux Distros
> (debian, YDL, Gentoo) with the full support of IBM and Freescale.
>
> Looks like it might be a good platform for dedicated workstation functionality
> the current version retails for ~800 USD for a complete system
> https://www.pegasosppc.com/store.php?category=10
> But would probably be a lot less if you were buying in volume.
>
> I was led to it from this blog posting
> http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2005/11/open-source-hardware.html
>
> It looks like it could be a pretty good platform for certain types of
> application,
> although if you were looking for the value proposition, you might do
> better on a Mac Mini today since you get slightly better CPU and a few
> goodies for about 200 USD less.
>
> But Apple isn't going to let you buy 2K units w/ a custom southbridge
> and corporate livery cases either.
>
>
>
>
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