Toni Mueller wrote: > > now you only need to educate "us" about how such machines can be used > in an economic fashion. > > Blaming people for not running PDA cpus for core routers or not > shelling out $40k for Niagara machines (supported by OpenBSD???) when > these are even outperformed by $4k PCs in almost all practical > scenarios, just doesn't cut it. Much less so if you take the rest of > the "supply chain" into account. > > It's not like I was in love with x86/amd64, but it's *really*hard* to > go for something else.
Further to this, if anyone is aware of any non-x86/x64 machines which are of similar bang-for-buck as off-the-shelf PCs, I for one would be *very* interested to know about them. An ARM laptop would be especially win :-) Dave W
