FPGA VAX update

[Bjørn Vermo]

On 24 Oct, 2005, at 01:04, woodelf wrote:

> Allison wrote:
>>
>> What else is out there that's not wintel, fast enough and can address 
>> a large memory that runs a fairly current UNIX.  That also assumes 
>> the software that can P&R the FPGA is available as source.
>>
> P&R is mostly sorting is my guess. However my designs view point for 
> open source
> is being able to keep the computer system capable of bootstaping 
> itself. Looking at the
> latest version of red-hat I find it hard to do any real development 
> work as everything
> is becoming too interconnected with every thing else.
>

Apple comes to mind. You can pick up a G4 really cheap these days. 
Whether you want to run BSD (OS X) or Linux is a matter of taste.
IBM have some PPc development systems (Walnut if I recall right) which 
can run both Linux and QNX, but I have no idea how to get one or what 
they sell for.

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-bv