http://www.osnews.com/story/17101/Terra_Soft_Teaming_up_with_Themis_on_Single-Board_Computer Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:00:12 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?207100 http://osnews.com/thread?207100 I've been wondering what would become of Yellow Dog Linux if there were no PPC Macs being sold.

But unfortunately, "military" and "VMEbus" are two words that translate to "too expensive for most." Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?207106 http://osnews.com/thread?207106 Does it run AmigaOS4? LOL Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nicholas) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?207158 http://osnews.com/thread?207158 It is nice to see PPC and other platforms remain on the desktop. Having multiple architectures provides flexibility and forces the writing of good code. I hope that TerraSoft is successful with this and also with working with Sony and Genesi and other players in the PPC realm keeping the desktop and server markets as diverse and competitive as possible. Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Seth Quarrier) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?207246 http://osnews.com/thread?207246 It'd be appropriate. Themis calls itself "The leader in high-performance computing for high-density, hostile operating environments" ;-). Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gary) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?207261 http://osnews.com/thread?207261 Amen I say to that, no offence intended.

The shrinking of the hardware market is not all golden. Unlikely as it is, if one of the two current big processor players where to go under, we would be faced with another virtual monopoly. No good would come of this and that is a fact.

P.S. I really like the PPC platform if just for the fact that not all the hardware I own is another x86 derivative. Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?207341 http://osnews.com/thread?207341 What about power consuption?

*Power - Single-CPU configuration:
12V power: 10.0A typical
5V power: 2.5A typical
* Power - Dual-CPU configuration (with PMC slot on CPU1 board)
12V power: 14.0A typical
5V power: 3.5A typical

That's sthg between 12.5W (that's OK!) - 168W (that's NOT ok) for the Single CPU board


(edit) crappy utf8 characters.. :-(Edited 2007-01-30 12:28 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Javier O. Augusto) Comments