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Re: Raptor Engineering POWER8 workstation
Posted on 9-Feb-2016 14:45:26
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More info, including benchmarks:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-workstation&num=1
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| Designed for security-conscious, high performance users, the highly flexible and extensible Talos Secure Workstation board includes two Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) capable slots, utilizes open-toolchain FPGAs, provides a plethora of PCI Express slots, and includes a GPIO header, along with open schematics and fully open and auditable firmware. |
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Re: Raptor Engineering POWER8 workstation
Posted on 9-Feb-2016 14:49:59
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I would buy one if it ran AmigaOS >4.x |
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Re: Raptor Engineering POWER8 workstation
Posted on 9-Feb-2016 15:07:56
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I already posted a similar sentiment on Morphzone.
Imagine, a PowerPC board that could actually compete. |
That fact that people are seriously considering this, just shows how much of a dead end PPC is and how mind-boggling all attempts in desktop PPCs have been for the past 10 years.
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