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Re: Would you support this project? -please read-
« on: January 27, 2004, 12:45:31 PM »
Hello
IMO the project need massive capital and may become other failed platform.You will need massive advertisement, lots of programmers for porting various applications, support etc. To become profitable you should sell at least several million units.

For CPU perhaps it's better to use Transmeta or other X86 CPU with fast 68K emulation. For chipset perhaps it's better to modify existing "all in one" chipset: Sis, Nforce etc.

There is lack of Coldfire promotion and support from Motorola. They refused to sell small quantity / prototype of V5e, V6e CF. The V4 220 MHz CPU does not have any floating point support inside the CPU. They cannot increase the speed to multi GHz.
 

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Re: Would you support this project? -please read-
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2004, 08:52:37 AM »
Hello
Perhaps in the future, if fast, cheap "reconfigurable computer" using  FPGA or other technology is available, such project may be possible.

The RC CPU can emulate X86, PowerPC, 68K or other CPU. Perhaps it will use WISC / Writable Instruction Set Computing.

The major players are Altera, Xilinx, Starbridges.