7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
7:39 a.m.
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 09:03, Paul Koning wrote:
I said major vendor, and meant general purpose computer, not embedded
stuff. Apple doesn't make PPC embedded stuff last I checked..
Pat
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>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <pat at
computer-refuge.org> writes:
Patrick> IBM seems to be the one remaining major vendor of
Patrick> "worthwhile" RISC-powered machines now, since Alpha has
been Patrick> getting squashed by HPaq for a while now.
There are others. If you want ready-built workstations, perhaps not,
but in the embedded world, MIPS and ARM are both alive and well, with
substantial advantages.