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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: (lisp) <ljp7@york.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Jul 2001 13:06:23 GMT
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In comp.sys.cbm Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> wrote:
> I demand that Bill Hoggett may or may not have written...
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:09:21 +0200, "T.J.T van Kooten"
>> <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote:
> [snip]
>>> CPU? (P.S Intel and AMD are out, far too expensive and powerhungry for
>>> this type of thing, you should be looking at the $20-35 level)
>> Very cheap and weak Intel or AMD CPU's then. The alternative is to go with
>> the stuff used in PDA's, but do you want to have a desktop or a PDA.
> Oh, I don't know... I'm using a nice ARM-based desktop box here...
And I'm surround by two MIPS boxes (One is admittedly a PSone, the other is
significantly cooler - an SGI Indy), one SPARC box (SPARCstation IPX) and one
SuperSPARC box (SPARCserver 10).
These might not be be spanking new architectures, but they're superior in
every way (expect sheer clock speed) than any Intel/clone box I've seen.
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