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PowerPC Open Platform Motherboards Finally Here 248

Posted by timothy on Monday January 28, 2002 @11:55AM
from the hope-laptops-come-next dept.

Cajal writes: "IBM's POP (PowerPC Open Platform) is a standard for making PowerPC-based motherboards. It's been out for years, but no one did anything with it. That's now changed. According to a story on PenguinPPC, Mai Logic is finally making POP motherboards. Finally, we can buy PowerPC motherboards without dealing with Apple."

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Doomed because of the stupid name (Score:1, Funny)

by Kopretinka (97408) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @12:06PM (#2914197) Homepage

I think POP is a stupid name compared to PC:
I just bought myself a new POP!
...he spent the day working at his desktop POP...
My POP crashed again!
etc. Would you buy a POP instead of a PC?8-)

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Nice board typo... (Score:2, Funny)

by Tower (37395) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @12:10PM (#2914219)

I like the "Ultra DAM 100" ports... oops :)

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Re:Doomed because of the stupid name (Score:2, Funny)

by k_187 (61692) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @12:19PM (#2914296) Journal

well, lets think about this for a second. What does PC stand for?

Personal Computer.

Hmm, so wouldn't a motherboard for a personal computer also be a PC?

By jove, I think I'm right :P The Anal Retentive part of me goes into convulsions every time I see PC vs. Mac. But then I give it chocolate and it quiets down.

POP is more akin to x86 than PC (or Mac for that matter)

I need a life.

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Teron PX Board supports PPC, MIPS, and X86 (Score:5, Funny)

by paladino (156081) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @12:41PM (#2914435)

I think it would be great to have one motherboard [mai.com] that supported processors from multiple vendors. Mai's web site says that the Teron PX board will support PPC, MIPS, and X86 processors.

Brings a whole new meaning to "Dual Boot".

You could develop in X86 Linux, shutdown swap processors, reboot in PPC Linux recompile and test.

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WOW! (Score:2, Funny)

by iforgotmyfirstlogon (468382) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @01:19PM (#2914670) Homepage

Now I can get out my NT 3.51 disks again!

- Freed

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Really Ugly Solder Job. (Score:4, Funny)

by groebke (313135) writes: <groebke@earthlink.net> on Monday January 28, 2002 @01:46PM (#2914824)

Check out that ugly power regulator in the upper left corner. Even if this is a demo board, a cleaner job should have been done with the prototype's part selection, mounting and soldering. This must be a joke, as that thing does not even have a heat sink on it. I think I will pass, and get one of those nifty new 1GHz dually's Apple now has.

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Re:Why in God's name would anyone want a Mac? (Score:3, Funny)

by Genady (27988) writes: <<gary.rogers> <at> <mac.com>> on Monday January 28, 2002 @02:49PM (#2915234)

You'll be working with stuff that's had to evolve in a much more Darwinian environment

Am I the only one who finds this troll ironic? After all Darwin's native development environment is Apple supplied PPC systems.

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Re:What ever happened to CHRP? (Score:2, Funny)

by BeeShoo (42280) writes: on Monday January 28, 2002 @02:57PM (#2915283)

What ever happened to CHRP?

I think Eric Estrada started asking for too much money and the ratings were slipping, so they cancelled it.

... no ... wait... Never mind...

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Re:Are you sure about illegality? (Score:3, Funny)

by TheAJofOZ (215260) writes: <adrian@symphonBOYSENious.net minus berry> on Monday January 28, 2002 @09:36PM (#2917592) Homepage Journal

This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-Labeled computer at a time.
So *that's* why they include a couple of Apple stickers with every new computer..... Stick them on the side of your clone and you can run OS X all you like...
Disclaimer: Yes, this is a joke... but an interesting concept none-the-less.

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Doomed because of the stupid name (Score:1, Funny)

Nice board typo... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Doomed because of the stupid name (Score:2, Funny)

Teron PX Board supports PPC, MIPS, and X86 (Score:5, Funny)

WOW! (Score:2, Funny)

Really Ugly Solder Job. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Why in God's name would anyone want a Mac? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What ever happened to CHRP? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Are you sure about illegality? (Score:3, Funny)

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