[geeks] HELL YES

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Mon Jan 28 19:32:11 CST 2002


>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:18:16PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
>>  On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>
>>  > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
>>  > > http://www.penguinppc.org/articles/tgall/pop.shtml
>>  >
>>  > At more than $2500 JUST for the motherboard?  Fuck that, gimme
>>  > a dual 1ghz powermac.
>>
>>  Ditto.  I wonder if this is what the CHRP mutated into...
>
>I believe that this board is closer to PReP than CHRP.  PReP was cool.  There
>are a few PReP mbs out there, but none as powerful as this should be (but
>most are a lot cheaper).  IBM released the reference designs for anyone to
>use license free, but not many people made use of them.  Kinda sad really.

The "barbie" board is what I'm talking about... thats supposedly POP 
(IBM's reference thingie)  compatible and such.  I don't think those 
"development boards" are what the article is about but perhaps I'm 
wrong.

daniel
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