From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux as a minicomputer ?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:29:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB88713.4070209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16wSh5-0000ue-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>This is fundamentally the problem with these kinds of schemes -- they
>>get outcompeted on price and availability by the massmarket items.
>>This is part of the very attraction of Linux -- it's running Unix on
>>stock, cheap, hardware.
>
> The hardware is now massmarket - otherwise I'd agree wholeheartedly. Video
> cards are cheap, USB2.0 cards have 4 root bridges per card.
>
Oh yes, but the *expensive* part of the machine -- the multiprocessor
box -- isn't.
Also, when using massmarket systems of more than 2 or 3 monitors you
start having cabling problems. VGA connectors aren't impedance matched
and cause nasty reflections at high resolutions, so they don't extend
well. I guess digital video is coming, but is not yet mass market.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-13 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-11 15:46 linux as a minicomputer ? John P. Looney
2002-04-11 16:43 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-11 16:49 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 17:07 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-04-11 17:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <3CB69032.D332FA51@aitel.hist.no>
2002-04-12 8:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 17:09 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-11 17:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 17:49 ` John P. Looney
2002-04-11 17:59 ` Rene Rebe
2002-04-11 18:46 ` James Simmons
2002-04-11 19:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-12 7:41 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-12 8:09 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-11 18:01 ` James Simmons
2002-04-11 19:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-04-13 19:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-11 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-11 20:05 ` James Simmons
2002-04-12 7:31 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-13 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 19:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-04-13 19:37 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-13 19:49 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 22:08 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-13 23:46 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-13 19:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-13 19:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-14 4:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-14 13:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-14 16:44 ` Sten
2002-04-14 16:50 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-14 20:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-15 16:05 ` Thomas Molina
2002-04-15 0:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-04-15 8:46 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-15 9:10 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <3CBB522C.8070704@bcgreen.com>
2002-04-15 18:09 ` Rob Landley
2002-04-14 2:35 ` ux " jw schultz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-11 17:42 linux " Ivan Ivanov
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