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Re: You want to use a pentium in your wearable, eh?

From: Simon Convey <>

>Simon replied...Hold on a second..., the Sparc chips are backwardly
>compatible....and have been so since inception and always will be........The
>name Sparc is an acronym for 'scaleable processor architecture' . Sun ( and
>others ) have managed this, where others have failed....    Ross make a dual
>300Mhz sparc which can be squeezed ( just ) into 1/2 height 5.25 in
>bay.......Runs Solaris, Linux, and maybe soon FreeBSD....
>
>    Alot of memebers on this group seem to forget that there is more than one
>processor manufacturer....

Yeah, but Sun's recent commitment to Merced makes me doubt Sparc's long-term
viability. Anyway, is this board any less power hungry than a Pentium board?
Except for some Sparc laptops many years ago, I can't seem to recall any
mobile Sparc designs.

sg

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