Data General/NeXT/Philips

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Jul 14 12:49:54 1999

> What other machines came out using the 88000?

I do not know, but certainly Motorola made some evaluation things, and
maybe even a VME board. I have a third party 88K board, for use in a
PeeCee, but i have never played with it.

Interestingly, sometimes these PeeCee based evaluation boards get
transformed into real products, but not as originally intended. One place
I worked at long ago bought AMD 29K boards with custom OCR software - it
was considerably faster than doing OCR on the native 486s.

> Is this because the technical info required for such a project isn't available,
> or hasn't anyone gotten around to it yet?
>
> It seems the former is true in the case of the AS/400. :-(

Both, probably. IBM has kept a pretty good lid on the AS/400 internals,
but also hackers seem to be extremely biased anti-IBM types, especially
AS/400s, so do not expect anything in the near future.

Porting Linux to AS/400s would be "interesting", because the hardware
really is bizarrely different from anything most people work on. They are
thoroghbred (sp?) database machines, doing those types of tasks very well
but everything else with less effectiveness..

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 12:49:54 BST