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From: Alan Grimes <alangrimes@s...>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:06:57 -0700
Subject: Re: OPENPPC>: Re: [openppc] Future of openppc.org and openppc.com domains
> > All your motherboard needs are good buses and a clean design. Build
> > it and I'll buy... as soon as I can figure out how to make some >> money. =P
> How about the firewire bus.... Some drive makers now support it, and it
> may get some peripheral support like USB. That would approach your
> desired kind of motherboard. VIA has low heat processors, but they
> cram everything on a motherboard. All that is lacking is to re design
> one for firewire, and leave off the peripherals. As a test bed, you
> could get a $129 VIA EPIA,
You underestimate my need for a job. =P
> (which Is crammed with peripherals), and
> jsut not use them. Add a firewire card, and start system protyping
> along. When tested well, make a motherboard. It is a product idea
> that goes well with industrial motherboard market.... you could
> actually make money at it. Are you circuit board averse?
What do you mean by that?
> I'm not. Maybe we could collaborate --- you do system testing, I help
> with hardware choices first before testing, then again with
> productizing and cost minimizing the motherboard.
What would that accomplish? it would just be another PC..
My PICMG bus system is probably a better starting point for things like
this.
It has two slots that could carry CPU cards, 4 PCI Slots, and 3 ISA
slots not counting the CPU card.
Its a passive backplane, no logick, only a keyboard connector with a
cable to connect it to the SBC.
--
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