On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:07 PM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > The Sony PS3 can be obtained for <=$399 USD and you > > get a nice Blu-ray player tossed in for free. The > > 'free' Blu-Ray player and Nvidia RSX GPU are more than > > worth the price of admission here in the long term and > > as a feasible solution. Both the old and new Mac Mini > > runs about $499 USD and has far less capabilities in > > key areas. > > > > FOSS developers are already familar with the PS3 and > > it is available and supported worldwide (where > > allowed). > > > > It is not hard to see a potential business case for > > this initiative. Checkmate?? > > Frankly speaking, I fail to see a potential business case > for going PS3 route. > FWIW, running in PPC emulator would give you the easiest > and cheapest platform for all. Why not that ?
Because they're all terrible & don't work properly ( or anything like real hardware ). Whereas the PS3's API's are pretty close to an actual Cell machine so migrating from PS3 -> actual Cell would be fairly easy. And PS3's are cheap-ish and plentiful, so newcomers have a non-zero probability of having them anyways, or can justify them on the basis that they're one of the cheaper bluray players on the market / can play games / resale value / whatever. Custom fabbed hardware means that we'd need newcomers to either REALLY, REALLY want to see opensolaris on powerpc ( enough to drop $1000 on a piece of hardware that serves no other purpose than to port opensolaris to ), or be limited to the 5 or 6 of us that already are here. -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
