On 29/01/18 09:32 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 09:17:20PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
My benchmark for processor success is: Does several of Asus,Supermicro,Tyan,Gigabyte et al make a motherboard for this CPU. I second this. If I can't buy it, then I don't care. This is true for cars and computer.
Ditto: Unobtanium isn't very useful (;-)) The sparc laptop I used to have was deliberately designed to fit on a board that was identical to a Dell product. When the screen died it was swapped for a Dell part. Ditto the battery, when it got wimpy. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain