From: tor@tss.no (Tor Arntsen) Subject: Re: MIPS R3000 board project; update. Date: 21 Jun 1993 05:21:57 -0400
On Jun 21, 5:39am, Bill Broadley wrote:
| Hmmm I just reread this thread and I agree with the original design.
|
| The mips 3000 is a cost effective cpu that's popular enough to make porting
| a free unix to it. It's strong points being: Very good performance relative
| to a 486, clean risc design, cheap, popularity (lots of unix boxes out
| there aready run gcc/gas on them), and a clear upgrade path for the future.
[mips facts + questions deleted]
|
| I'm open for discussion but I'd rather have a mips 3000 + ram on a isa
| board, and use the existing cheap PC boards unless the internal bus for
| video/scsi/ethernet provide such a big advantage over what I can
| get cheap for the ISA bus.
I tend to agree. For some reason the thought of a MIPS engine to just
slip into the PC I already have sounds more appealing to me than
having a new box. Otherwise I could just buy a MIPS pc (sold by SGI now
I think) right? Also I guess one could then run Linux on the {34]86 and
switch over to the MIPS when cross-hacking on a New Version..
If the price of a simple (basically CPU and RAM) MIPS board is not
too high (for me, that means < $1300-1400 (US$)), I will buy one.
| Bill 1st> Broadley@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu
| Broadley@schneider3.lrdc.pitt.edu <2nd 3rd> Broadley+@pitt.edu
| Linux is great. Bike to live, live to bike. PGP-ok
Regards,
Tor (tor@tss.no)
(BTW, the R4400 exists in a 50/100 version also, not only 75/150)