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 f97Gd9Q21765 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:39:09 -0700 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f97Gd6D21761 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 09:39:06 -0700 Received: from [195.20.224.220] (helo=mrvdom04.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15qGx9-0007jq-00; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:38:59 +0200 Received: from pd9590fea.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.89.15.234] helo=thalreit.de) by mrvdom04.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15qGx9-0004Yb-00; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:38:59 +0200 Message-ID: <3BC08523.4A23F7E8@thalreit.de> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 18:38:59 +0200 From: Volker Jahns Organization: Thalreit/DE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jun Sun CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: MIPS PC - anyone? References: <20011006102302.B3492@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Jun Sun wrote: > > Does anybody know if there is such a "MIPS PC" machine? Essentially > I am looking for a machine with MIPS CPU and PC peripherals (such as > SIMM RAM, PCI bus, EIDE HD, VGA graphics, PS/2 mouse/kbd, etc). > > 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. > > Jun Why don't you use the SONY playstation 2 w/ its LINUX kit? The costs are less and the graphics performance is greater than any Intel based PC I am aware of. -- Volker Jahns, Volker.Jahns@thalreit.de, http://thalreit.de