On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:36:21AM +1000, Nigel Weeks wrote: > Has anyone considered the untapped potential of the N64 machines now being > thrown onto the junk heap? > > How close is the 'custom' R4000 processor to SGI's reference design? It's a R4300. > Have any SGI developers ever run a linux kernel on one? > Ever hooked up a drive or a cdrom? As for my part, don't care. > It's make a great little router - 64bit, at that;-) With a 32-bit memory bus and tiny amount of memory. The thing may have amazing graphics but that's not the processor doing them but the custom chips that compensate for a lot of the otherwise expensive resources the N64 doesn't have ... > What can that expansion port underneath do? hmm... Ralf
