H . J . Lu wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 10:23:02AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > > > Does anybody know if there is such a "MIPS PC" machine? Essentially > > I am looking for a machine with MIPS CPU and PC peripherals (such as > > SIMM RAM, PCI bus, EIDE HD, VGA graphics, PS/2 mouse/kbd, etc). I don't know, but I doubt it exists. Main problem would be developing an appropriate chipset (different processor bus, maybe big endian, maybe 64bit). > > It would be really nice to have such a box. If it is massively produced, > > the price should be cheaper than i386 PCs because MIPS CPU price is > > much cheaper. Nearly every CPU other than x86 would be cheaper in mass production. Unfortunately, mass production seems not to happen. > I doubt that. Can you tell me how much 1GHz MIPS CPU might be cost? > My guess is it will be more expensive than x86. You might ask e.g. Sibyte about it. :-) Thiemo
