I have been working on the design of such a machine for a few months now as a background project. The mainboard features are: PMC RM7000A 400MHz CPU, 2MB tertiary cache, GT64120A system controller, 512K byte boot prom, DS1501 RTC, 512MB SDRAM, two serial ports (ST16C2552), OPTI 82C862 USB controller, 4 32-bit 33MHz PCI slots, 2 32-bit 66MHz PCI slots, ATX form factor. Prices for the processor and system controller are significantly higher than the equivilent i386 components in low volume. High enough volume to get it to parity with i386 prices is probably not realistic. From what I've heard some people still don't use Linux. :) Price for the system will probably be in the US$1200 range. Send me an email off the list if you are interested or have suggestions. The more I hear from the faster it will probably get done. Joe 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). > > 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. > > Jun >
