Awesome demo of "Municator"

[Christopher Browne]

On 4/23/06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   US$146 super-compact computer running (taa-daa) linux on a VIA chip as
> shown at CEBIT 2006.  Their slogan is "Say NO to Wintel".  Warning; the
> following link is to an 11 minute plus AVI video file.  At 84,823,686
> bytes, dialup users are out of luck.  The link is...
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9203462148706105599

Here's the vendor web site:
http://yellowsheepriver.org/products.html

What this has is a 64 bit MIPS CPU.

In effect, it may well be (underneath) is the "MIPS Holy Grail,"
namely a "commodity" motherboard for 64 bit MIPS.

The reason why we never saw interesting deployments (in quantity) of
ARM, PPC, and MIPS-based Linux systems is that there weren't vendors
offering $100 motherboards.  There was a brief existence of "not
outrageously priced" Alpha hardware, but for the other architectures,
you had little way to get "commodity" hardware for them.  You could
only get $100 motherboards for Intel (and clones thereof) CPUs.

This is actually fairly exciting, even if the CPU is somewhat wimpy. 
First generation may be wimpy, but if it sells, at all, there can be
later generations...
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