On 16-Jul-97 Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
>> For those of you interested in CHRP PPC machine, take a look at
>> www.pios.de. Seems like a very flexible system, and it will be shipping
>> with Linux and BeOS. I know what my next computer will be.
>
>They certainly look interesting, at least eventually. But at the moment
>it seems to be an almost finsihed machine running an almost finished
>port of linux which is only avaialble in a developers version for
>several hundred dollars more than comparable x86 systems. Oh, well.
>Next time . . .
As the only proprietary part is the motherboard, which includes sound/midi,
while the rest is made up of industry standard components, I very much doubt
your estimate. Esp. as they haven't announced a price yet. You are probably
confusing it with the Keenya, which is a Mac clone based on Motorola's
Tanzania board.
The reason I am considering this system is that I am also very attracted to the
BeOS and the fact that it will most probably run a CHRP version of Rhapsody.
For a Linux-only system it makes sense to stick to x86, esp. considering the
competition Intel is seeing from Cyrix and AMD.
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