On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Terry Hancock wrote:
We are also seeing Sun working on the OpenSPARC / UltraSPARC T1 (previously
I had no interest in SPARC, but this changes the picture for me), and of
course, there has been the Open Cores project, which has been developing
a lot of different FPGA and ASIC designs for some time now (including at
least
one RISC CPU, which to me, makes Sun's claims of being pioneers for the the
OpenSPARC project ring a little false to me).
My experience of Sun is that the CPUs are extremly expensive, have had
some wishes of updating my Ultra10 from a 333MHz to a 440MHz CPU, but the
cost of the CPU module is all to expensive for this 90's hardware.
I know another "open source" hardware and is the PegasosII from Genesi,
which can be downloaded at power.org for registred memebers (this is
free), as far as I know (I can be wrong here) the SamrtFirmware isn't
released for free as it's a 3rd party product but can be licensed through
Genesi.
Myself I do have a PegasosII/G4 made by bPlan for Genesi and it's an okey
hardware, not as much on the edge as a Mac G5.
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//Aho
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