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Are there any good open computers?
by hellbanner 9y ago
Are there any good open computers?
- e12e 9y agoI think that depends on what you mean by good and computer. You might, for example, want something that costs on the same order of magnitude as an Intel or AMD x86_64-bit cpu. Afaik the answer to that question then becomes no. There's some hope around power9-based systems: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ For more modest demands on performance, and affordability , there's LEON and OpenSPARC.
- hellbanner 9y agoThanks. I couldn't find LEON (bad google-fu?), can you link? So in effect, big $CORPs own computers and with Alphabet agency influence and systemic flaws, the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten.
- e12e 9y agoSee: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEON > the hope for open and secure and powerful computing should be forgotten I'd say it depends a bit. IBM still throwing money at POWER is interesting. The openSPARC is interesting for certain embedded applications that deal with signal processing - where there's real work to be done both in software and hardware (asic / fpga) - like wireless communication. Having a few sparc cores that run Linux well ready to drop in on a fpga is very nice. But for consumer hw... Yeah, it's difficult to compete with arm on one side and Intel/AMD on the other. Remember that even transmeta had to throw in the towel trying to compete in that space.