I was talking to Vince Cate (Vincent.Cate@cs.cmu.edu) and he made
the following suggestions:
>Shannon Computers (603) 875-3800 has a generic PCI-based motherboard
>design which replaces a standard PC-AT motherboard and accepts PCI
>CPU-cards. It can work with any processor. To start with there will be
>PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, x86, and M1 (guess Pentium too).
> Std PC motherboard replacement (PC-AT format)
> 3 PCI (64 bit PCI - 230 MB/sec)
> 5 ISA
> PCI/ISA bridge chip
> keyboard controller
> realtime clock
> bios
> scci (stuffed or not)
> make 3.3 v onboard so can use cheap power supply
> IBM AIX/WorkplaceOS
> DEC porting NT to 21066
> Motorla porting NT PowerPC
> Royalties $1/motherboard, $0.75/CPU-board
So this means that if we did this that we would have to pay them $1.00
per motherboard which seems like a GREAT deal to me. Advantages
over the current design is CPU upgradeable, PCI.
Another option is :
>DeskStation (913) 599-1900 will sell me R4600 boxes (power, box, motherboard,
>CPU) for $1,000 if I buy 12 or more.
If your interested check out the document:
furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu:pc.cpu.market
Comments?
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