Re: Bigsur?

[Markus Gothe <nietzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The SGI Quad Tezro and SGI Fuel and their MIPS-based server-line is  
still in use by institutions. However the fact is that the big  
business is in embedded devices nowadays with MIPS32/MIPS64. Albeit  
there does exist netbooks based on MIPS.

//Markus

On 18 May 2009, at 18:31, David Daney wrote:

> Jon Fraser wrote:
> [...]
> > Are people just looking for eval type boards with MIPS cpus?
>
> I think the answer to that is: Yes.
>
> There are not really any commercially available MIPS based devices  
> that can be used as a general purpose server/workstation.  Some  
> people are working on old SGI Octanes, but there is really nothing  
> available for currently produced processors.
>
> David Daney
>
>
> > Jon Fraser
> > (Not offical statments for Broadcom)
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 20:14 -0700, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> > > Is there any way for a mere mortal like me to get his hands on a
> > > BCM91480B, the evaulation board for Bigsur, and if so, how much  
> > > would
> > > it cost? Right now, it's not even on the Broadcom website, but I  
> > > keep
> > > seeing mentions of it on the internet as if many people are  
> > > getting it
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > Andrew Wiley

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