Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 10:13:50 +0000


On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 01:22:05PM +0100, jens@pinguin.conetix.de wrote:
> [...] unless some invents replicators (which would kind of upset our
> economy anyway :) hardware will never be as cheap to produce as
> software. Because software doesn't use itself up.

Computer hardware replication is not as hard as general replication.
Various speculations crop up: biomolecular, nanotech, factory in a
suitcase. I have a few ideas of my own too ;-)

And there's always the possibility of really cheap, extremely
reconfigurable hardware.

> On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 06:30:57PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > For now, try FPGAs. They're large enough to hold small processors and
> > motherboard glue logic (tie a few together) and fast enough for things
> > like PCI and Gigabit Ethernet (barely). Prices vary.
>
> <a href="put something in here">where?</a>

comp.arch.fpga

-- Jamie

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