From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f971ZRT03321 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:35:27 -0700 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (a1as06-p182.stg.tli.de [195.252.187.182]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f971ZND03317 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:35:24 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f971ZDH11095; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 03:35:13 +0200 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 03:35:13 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: MIPS PC - anyone? Message-ID: <20011007033513.B4228@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20011006102302.B3492@mvista.com> <20011006103654.B2195@lucon.org> <20011006200116.A30443@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011006200116.A30443@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>; from ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:01:16PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:01:16PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > It would be really nice to have such a box. If it is massively produced, > > > the price should be cheaper than i386 PCs because MIPS CPU price is > > > much cheaper. > > Nearly every CPU other than x86 would be cheaper in mass production. > Unfortunately, mass production seems not to happen. > > > I doubt that. Can you tell me how much 1GHz MIPS CPU might be cost? > > My guess is it will be more expensive than x86. > > You might ask e.g. Sibyte about it. :-) Well, Sibyte doesn't give you one but two CPUs on the die of thei SOC. Details see the various online resources. Btw, not yet shipping but Linux supported :-) Ralf