Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:20:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com (Drew Baxter) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, patl@phoenix.volant.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <199901310020.RAA26553@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990129225730.00c70670@genesis.ispace.com> from "Drew Baxter" at Jan 29, 99 11:09:00 pm
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> >It also has a nasty IDE interface, a nasty modem, a nasty ethernet > >port, a nasty ATI graphics chip, a nasty sound chip. > > I wouldn't go as far to say that the ATI Graphics chip is crap.. The ATI > Onboard for the Motorola Starmax was relatively decent. It's questionable > if this is the same chipset they use on the IMac, but I've found that the > embeddeds are just about the same. Any graphics on board is too much graphics on board, was kind of the point. > I wouldn't hesistate to put a Mac on running FreeBSD if the port was > available. I will say that I found the RS/6000's to be relatively fast, > and the ones I used had a PowerPC 601. As it goes I have a Mac sitting > around that's a 603e, but I refuse to run Linux on it.. Apparently, NetBSD will netboot on the thing. I don't know if there's enough hardware documentation to do anything else. If the IDE drive were up, and you could actually get something on the console, I'd be driving down to Fry's right now instead of typing this. 8-). > Although, Seiko has developed the Ruputer (http://www.ruputer.com) which I > must say, it a very intriguing design.. Very, very nifty. Very nifty. If you had one, you'd out-geek the rest of us for sure... anyone else have a wristwatch with 4M of RAM? http://www.ruputer.com/product/index.html 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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