In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philipp Klaus Krause writes: > Hamish Marson wrote: > > > Why use Sparc? It's lagging seriously in the performance stakes. If you > > want portable, use either PowerPC or Arm. If you want performance, use > > PowerPC. If you want cheap, probably AMD (AMD has memory controller > > onboard as well, which effectively elimiantes the northbridge controller > > in the chipset). > > He wants a free processor. The major ones are the Niagara (SPARC), Leon > (SPARC) and OpenRISC. The free ARM processors have all been hunted down > and killed by ARM Ltd.
If they are "free" in the copyleft sense, how could ARM Ltd. kill them? Of course as a practical matter, going from "blueprints" to fabbing a chip isn't easy or cheap. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
