Awesome demo of "Municator"

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:51:09AM -0700, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Here's the vendor web site:
> http://yellowsheepriver.org/products.html
> 
> What this has is a 64 bit MIPS CPU.

Neat.  It's the chinese mips clone I remember reading about a few years
ago.  Nice to see they got it working.

> 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.

ARM is gaining a lot of popularity due to the NSLU2.

> 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...

Hard to find anything that compares at that price.

Len Sorensen
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