>POWER seems to be a candidate for the future of high-end computing
My impression from raptor's emails is, the main parameter is number of
mainboards you order or raptor
sells. I have not asked raptor but I do not think ppc is inherently more
expensive than similar x86 hardware. If you buy 300000 mainboards, why should
the price per mainboard be much higher?
>cost goes down to a few thousand dollars
The mainboard in question here is about 10000usd for a ppc mainboard, cpu
included, if raptor gets an
order of 10000 mainboards. It is a micro atx computer. If you
already have an atx computer, there
are no more costs. Maybe apart from a ram module.
>pipe dream
That would be the buyers decision. What was new to me is, you cannot make a
new libre software x86
computer. You can manufacture a new ppc libre software computer.
The eoma has several difficult obstacles. To me the main
problems are performance and planning.
The current eoma is about an arm a20 cpu. It is nothing more than
a raspberry pi. It has nothing to do with a x86 notebook in
terms of performance. Have you used a raspberry pi?
That would not matter if there was a fixed plan for releases of
better performing pc cards. Which there is not. There is
a rk3288 which is not a x86 regarding performance.
If hewlett packard decided to make the pc card, they would have
the technical and financial volume to say when what hardware
would be on the market. And it would likely hold.
So far lkcl has to wait and see what relevant hardware gets on
the market.
