[talk] Inexpensive mips board

[Pete Wright]

On 12/05/14 04:18, Mark Saad wrote:
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>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
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>>> On 12/04/14 15:48, Mark Saad wrote:
>>> All
>>>  In the realm of inexpensive computers here is a $65 mips board . It looks interesting anyone want to give it a try ? 
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>>> http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/mips-creator-ci20-development-board-now-available
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>> bah - MIPS is interesting - but this is what I'm working on getting my
>> dayjob to expense for me in 2015:
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>> http://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/tyans-openpower-customer-reference-system-now-available/
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>> i'd love to see some more competition to Intel in the DC space!
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> Pete same thoughts here , do you know what the price tag on this setup is ?  
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so they have this deal going on which i'm going to try to push through
at my job:

http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/

fortunately we have a POP in H.K. so I may be able to swing this deal.
if i can get one of these in house i'll keep you all posted on my
results of trying to get FreeBSD on it.

cheers,
-pete

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Pete Wright
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