The initial BeBox prototypes used AT&T Hobbit processors and DSP’s. When AT&T dropped the Hobbit, they chose PowerPC over a risc system from HP. At that point i

The initial BeBox prototypes used AT&T Hobbit processors and DSP’s. When AT&T dropped the Hobbit, they chose PowerPC over a risc system from HP. At that point in time, all these non x86 systems seemed to be gathering industry support. Then WinTel exploded into the market hungry for cheap vanilla systems.