On 24 Oct, 2005, at 01:04, woodelf wrote:
  Allison wrote:
 What else is out there that's not wintel, fast enough and can address
 a large memory that runs a fairly current UNIX.  That also assumes
 the software that can P&R the FPGA is available as source.
 
 P&R is mostly sorting is my guess. However my designs view point for
 open source
 is being able to keep the computer system capable of bootstaping
 itself. Looking at the
 latest version of red-hat I find it hard to do any real development
 work as everything
 is becoming too interconnected with every thing else.
 
 Apple comes to mind. You can pick up a G4 really cheap these days.
 Whether you want to run BSD (OS X) or Linux is a matter of taste.
 IBM have some PPc development systems (Walnut if I recall right) which
 can run both Linux and QNX, but I have no idea how to get one or what
 they sell for. 
You can also run a real BSD (not OS X) on a G4 Mac.
Just wanted to clarify that.