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Date:      Tue, 3 Nov 1998 01:41:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
To:        jabley@clear.co.nz
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for Strongarm?
Message-ID:  <199811030941.BAA15702@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19981103134830.B11452@clear.co.nz> (message from Joe Abley on Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:48:30 %2B1300)

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>Re: announcement copied below - a StrongARM RedHat distribution would
>give some more background reading for FreeBSD porting, with the usual
>BSD/GPL caveats.

Corel Computer already have Linux on their NetWinder, my reading of the
announcement is just that they are making it look the same as RH 5.1.

>There is also a cool idea brewing in the UK to mount 6 or 8 233MHz
>StrongARM CPUs on a single dual-bus PCI card, each processor with its
>own RAM and flash for booting:
>
>  http://www.chaltech.com/
>  http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/sa-beowulf
>
>Now _that_ would be a compact platform for clustering - a nasty old
>P90 motherboard to act as an NFS server and router, and 32 x 233MHz
>StrongARM processors running IP over the PCI bus. All in a single
>mini-tower chassis.  Mmmmmm. That does smell good :)

Chaltech currently do a single processor ATX motherboard which seems
to be one of the cheapest ways to get a development system.

Robert Swindells


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