However, the Athlon-FX does not have enough coherent HT links for multiple cpus, so you will have to use the opteron 2xx series. As for dual 16x vs dual 8x, there is no real world performance diff.
Also, there are number of other mobo makers with similar boards on the way based on the nvidia 2200, 2050, and amd 8131/8132 chips.
This is nothing new. I've been at Best Buy for 2 years, and every machine sold there, be it HP, Compaq, Toshiba, Sony, or Emachines, has the os setup as a (ghost/powerdeploy/driveimage) image on a set of self booting cds. In fact, all modern HPs use hidden hard drive partitions with compressed system images on them. In linux fdisk, you will see them listed as type 12 (Compaq Diagnostics). When customers screw up their MBRs, I regularly have to use fdisk from a Knoppix cd to fix it or force the recovery partition to become active and unhidden. This makes programs like Partition Magic all the more handy to have around.
Actually, I've had the 1100 for a few years now, and I just use the old Rocket Librarian software to convert html and text files to its own.rb format. Works fairly well, the device has quite possibly the best indoor/outdoor lcd I've seen to date, and usually has 35 hour plus battery life. I also have a pda, and one just cannot compare the two, reading for any length of time on any current pda is a pain due to limited amount of screen real estate. The only pda with a screen large enough to be a comfortable ebook reader would have been the Newton or the Vadem Clio.
The catd would have to have an onboard videoBIOS that supported the processor arch. This is why you can't just stick a pci vidcard designed for x86 into an alpha without appropriate the firmware. Few manufacturers bother to make Alpha firmware for their cards, let alone UltraSPARC. (with the exception of some high end cards of course)
QSSL already has developer mindshare with its QNX 4 and Neutrino OS's. In the industrial realtime industry their only real competition is VxWorks.
Furthermore QNX has been around for nearly 20 years and is FULLY posix compliant and certified.
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The tyan s2895 (thunder k8we)l
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http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.htm
(just preordered one myself),
The Iwill DK8EW and DK8ES
http://www.iwillusa.com/product_2.asp?p_id=91&sp=
However, the Athlon-FX does not have enough coherent HT links for multiple cpus, so you will have to use the opteron 2xx series. As for dual 16x vs dual 8x, there is no real world performance diff.
Also, there are number of other mobo makers with similar boards on the way based on the nvidia 2200, 2050, and amd 8131/8132 chips.
Board member #1: "Hey, let's sell our profitable division so that we can focus on one that will never make money ever."
Board Member #2: "Brilliant!"
This is nothing new. I've been at Best Buy for 2 years, and every machine sold there, be it HP, Compaq, Toshiba, Sony, or Emachines, has the os setup as a (ghost/powerdeploy/driveimage) image on a set of self booting cds. In fact, all modern HPs use hidden hard drive partitions with compressed system images on them. In linux fdisk, you will see them listed as type 12 (Compaq Diagnostics). When customers screw up their MBRs, I regularly have to use fdisk from a Knoppix cd to fix it or force the recovery partition to become active and unhidden. This makes programs like Partition Magic all the more handy to have around.
Actually, I've had the 1100 for a few years now, and I just use the old Rocket Librarian software to convert html and text files to its own .rb format. Works fairly well, the device has quite possibly the best indoor/outdoor lcd I've seen to date, and usually has 35 hour plus battery life. I also have a pda, and one just cannot compare the two, reading for any length of time on any current pda is a pain due to limited amount of screen real estate. The only pda with a screen large enough to be a comfortable ebook reader would have been the Newton or the Vadem Clio.
The catd would have to have an onboard videoBIOS that supported the processor arch. This is why you can't just stick a pci vidcard designed for x86 into an alpha without appropriate the firmware. Few manufacturers bother to make Alpha firmware for their cards, let alone UltraSPARC. (with the exception of some high end cards of course)
Nonsense!
QSSL already has developer mindshare with its QNX 4 and Neutrino OS's. In the industrial realtime industry their only real competition is VxWorks.
Furthermore QNX has been around for nearly 20 years and is FULLY posix compliant and certified.
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