From: zarkdav@zarkdav.frmug.fr.net (Benjamin Ryzman) Subject: Re: MIPS R3000 board project; update. Date: 30 Jun 1993 21:00:45 GMT
PERUCCI, PHILIP A. (SSB1PZP@imcvms.med.navy.mil) wrote:
: > I hope that it would cause the "existing community" to stop buying
: > x86 based motherboards <grin>. Seriously, I can't really see a new
: > board taking any support away from Linux - in fact, I would think
: > that a multi-platform incarnation of Linux would help to raise it's
: > profile among "serious" or non-hobbiest sites. I think that this
: > would in turn encourage more interest from commercial software and
: > support companies, which can only be good for Linux as a whole.
: >
: All POTENTIALLY true! Similar to NetBSD folks talking seriously to
: BSD (not 386BSD/BSD386 - "REAL" BSD) folks about updating the Intel
: portion of their source tree, having MIPS support added to the Linux
: source tree could really boost the user base.
: ***** Linus? Is this a realistic goal? Consistant with your "vision"? *****
On another hand, why not port linux to the Alpha PC? Is the architecture too
much different from the x86 PC?
I heard that Alpha is quite cheaper than Pentium, and that DEC is licensing
the Alpha PC architecture to OEMs.