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From: Tom Geller <tom@t...>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:39:13 -0800
Subject: [openppc] Meaning of "OpenPPC"
"M&M's" <mms.kisskool@f...> writes:
>As I am reading what you wrote, some questions arise. G3 and G4 would then
>be absolutely impossible to route on a PCB by hand ? What is then the
>meaning of OpenPPC ? Nothing more than a dream ?
I can answer that.
Ralph Giles and I started the OpenPPC Project a little over two years
ago to try to build motherboards based on a freely available
reference design then being created by IBM. See
<http://www.openppc.org/news.shtml> for a history.
Unfortunately, IBM never delivered the Gerber (layout) files
necessary to actually produce the boards. They apparently tried
creating a few of their own, discovered that the northbridge they'd
commissioned from Winbond was faulty, and decided that it would be
irresponsible to encourage others to suffer problems from that faulty
part. So it never got past the schematic stage.
<http://www.openppc.org> has a lot of information gathered during
that shining year or so that it looked like it might happen, though.
Some of the mailing list archives have been lost, but what's
available is at <http://www.openppc.org/archives/>.
Cheers,
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