Atheist questions where either very naiv
or rather stupid, pick one.
On my opinion, BB answer was OK.
You can't blame them for choosing the Articia.
They wanted to build a PPC based computer - the Pegasos.
For the CPU they decided to offer an CPU slot.
- Which was a decision we all appreciated very much.
For the first CPU module the picked the IBM 750 cxe.
- Again a very reasonable decision.
Running Amiga/MorphOS the G3 (750)
has a similar performance as the G4
but uses less Power (=no fan) and is much cheaper.
For the northbridge they chosed the use the Articia.
- Now, we know that this was maybe a bad decision,
but at the time they decided to use it,
it was a very reasonable decision.
The Artecia offered many features at a reasonable price.
Everybody should know that exchanging
the northbridge now is not so easy.
The have invested real money in
- designing the boards
- producing boards
- and writing code /driver for the Articia
I think that everybody understands that
the northbidge is a vital part of the mainboard
which can't just be replaced.
By using another nothbridge most of their work
and money to build the Pegasos is wasted.
They will have a build a complete new board.
How would you feel if you invested big time
and money in building a Computer system ;
and then, just before you can start selling them,
you see that they are broken - and its not even your fault.
And now people will ask you question like
- look at MAC they do it better than you -
Why don't you throw away your design and
start again from scratch ?
Well, this would really piss me off too.
just my 2cents
regards
Gunnar
