Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip

From: DaMouse Networks
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 14:49:10 EST


On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:45:07 -0500
Timothy Miller <miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > More cost? how is saving money on the BIOS raising cost? also the SMP thing would allow like a ton of cheap chips to be stuck on with uber glue :)
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> I was talking about adding more chips as being something that would
> raise costs.

I was tried to cover that area to by making it so it would be alot of cheap chips since Linux scales extremely well with SMP it would be possible to just a few 50->100MHz chips on there which were built cheap but altogether form a cheap-and-cheerful SMP array.

-DaMouse
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