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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Mark S. Bilk would say:
>In article <8do285$raf$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>,
>David Steinberg <steinber@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>The link in David Steinberg's .sig sent me on an interesting 
>journey, which I'd like to share with others who may not be
>familiar with some of this information.  Thanks, David!
>
>The microprocessor designs of opencores.org -- at least the 
>one I looked at -- are licensed under the GPL.  I'm not sure
>about the others -- openip.org and free-ip.com -- so I don't 
>know if improvements to them have to be given back to the 
>community.  Therefore a link to the FSF website about such 
>issues is included before that section.
>
>Apparently GNU/Linux has been ported to the OpenCores RISC 
>processor, and they're also working on various I/O and memory 
>chips, so eventually, it will be possible to use a computer 
>that's Open Source down to the chip microcode and circuitry!

This is a _most_ interesting project.

The claim is that for about $300, they can actually _supply_
working, populated motherboards.

If that merely buys you something equivalent to a wimpy Pentium,
that is, on the one hand, not all that impressive, economically,
at this point in time.

Nonetheless, if it be a "free" core, and this _beginning_ is
usefully powerful, the increase coming from both added efforts
and added quantities can lead to something better and cheaper.
-- 
Actually, typing random  strings in the Finder does  the equivalent of
filename  completion.    (Discussion  in  comp.os.linux.misc   on  the
intuitiveness of commands: file completion vs. the Mac Finder.)
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