On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:07:00AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete > Dutra wrote: > > > > Yeah, indeed... it really seems that IBM doesn't want Power(PC) to be a > > > successor. > > I assume you meant simply success, as you didn't point successor to > > what -- I'd assume successor to the IA-32. > > Yes, of course success... :) > > > > But that's somewhat IBM typical. Remember OS/2. There's a long > > > term support for OS/2, but over all the years, IBM failed to really make > > > it > > > popular. > > Not only OS/2, but also PS/2 and various generations of POWER. > > Remember the IBM PowerPC workstations and notebooks running OS/2? > > Yes, there are several examples how bad IBM marketing sometimes is - if it > exists at all! ;) > > > > Freescale aims at a different market than IBM. IBM goes for big iron > > > systems > > > and midrange servers, Freescale for embedded systems and low end. > > Yeah, but these Genesi systems really look underpowered. I'd still buy > > them if I could -- would have done if I hadn't lost my job in > > Switzerland --, but they really offer no competition to mainstream PCs. > > Yes, the peg2 boards are somewhat behind in some regards. There's still the > possibility to replace the CPU module by a faster one. Sadly, there is none > available. It would be nice if some third party vendors would bring some to > market - but that market is too small yet. > Furthermore it would IMHO make more sense to put the RAM modules as well on > the module and just keep the basic things on the mainboard such as IDE, PCI > and other IO ports. Dunno if this is possible with all those North- und > Southbridge thingies... > > > And IBM simply won't go cheap enough. > > Indeed. So there's just Apple and Genesi and Hyperion out there.
Hyperion doesn't count, their hardware are buggy, and i am not aware of anyone buying it apart from some deluded Amiga OS 4 wanabee users. See also previous post on benh here about the dma-on-articia and linux issue. Friendly, Sven Luther
