Re: even the press likes us ;-)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
24 Feb 1998 16:53:25 GMT

Followup to: <199802240526.AAA03407@rufus.w3.org>
By author: Daniel Veillard <veillard@rufus.w3.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> BTW, why a MIPS instead of say an Alpha or a Sparc chip ? Is this linux,
> Sw/HW engineering related or politics/marketing/price consequences ?
> I agree this is certainly a bit out of scope of linux-kernel ...
>

Probably was picked based on price/performance... my guess would be
with emphasis on price. Alphas and SPARCs are both very expensive.

-hpa

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