Look at how much time and money bPlan invested into the Pegasos1/2, based on technology 1 or 2 generations behind the G5, and with people who have some real experience in PPC-HW-design
Was Pegy II a straight ?copy & paste?(TM) engineering job from Marvell Discovery based reference board? (rhetorical question)
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@Kronos
There is no reason why IBM or AMD would not communicate with us. Cna you think of one? IBM is looking to get the G5 into as many markets as possible, including a push into mainstream desktops. That means as many motherboards as possible. Also, you don't seem to ahve a very good grasp of the way in which these companies opporate. IBM and AMD do not sell direct to manufacturers, they go through their own authroised distributers, for example, in the UK IBM's has both ACAL (www.acalsemis.com) and WBC (wbc-europe.com). There is no talking to the comapny required, you can buy their chips from distributers just like you can buy a PIC from Rapid, the only limits are the quantities, usually arround 1,000 but it depends on the company. You seem to forget that they are businesses, they are here to make money in the same way resteraunts are, you don't stop someone coming into your resteraunt just because you don't liek the look of them, if you did that you wouldn't make any money and you would get a bad reputation. If you had read my first post you would realise that I don't just work from my bedroom and that I do have PPC expereince. Also, you do not need a lot of equipment, both maufacturing and assembly are always done by 3rd partys, even Appl don't have their own circuit board manufacturing plants, they use ones that are run by 3rd partys for the computer industry. One of the points I would make about your examples are that they are working from scratch as such, their is no reference board for a C-One and the ones for the parts which they are using are almost certainly designed for different applications and so are litle or no use. We would be working from a reference board produced by an expereinced company who have designed many PPC and SPARC boards.
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