Re: [openppc] Apple Talk?

[Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:25:46AM +0000, Alasdair Ferro wrote:
> As to G4/G5 in Socket A or Socket 478 (Correct me if I'm wrong with the numbers), that would require the processor bus on the G4/G5 to be radically changed, to either a P4 bus (licensing issues - I can't
> see Intel being willing to license a company who would concievable attack the bottom line), or an EV6 (Alpha) bus - see previous comments about Intel, who own the Alpha IP as well.

Mmm, given the fact that apple is part of the HyerTransport Consortium, a G5
running HT is much more likely, it could then use maybe the same motherboards
than the future 64bit athlon processors, altough seing how motorolla's current
G5 processor have a rapidio bus, i don't know if this is feasible.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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