Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:31:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:30:00 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:32775 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:29:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3CB88713.4070209@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:29:23 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux as a minicomputer ? In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > >>This is fundamentally the problem with these kinds of schemes -- they >>get outcompeted on price and availability by the massmarket items. >>This is part of the very attraction of Linux -- it's running Unix on >>stock, cheap, hardware. > > The hardware is now massmarket - otherwise I'd agree wholeheartedly. Video > cards are cheap, USB2.0 cards have 4 root bridges per card. > Oh yes, but the *expensive* part of the machine -- the multiprocessor box -- isn't. Also, when using massmarket systems of more than 2 or 3 monitors you start having cabling problems. VGA connectors aren't impedance matched and cause nasty reflections at high resolutions, so they don't extend well. I guess digital video is coming, but is not yet mass market. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/