____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 01 Jan 2010 13:48 : \____
> Terry Porter pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> begin{quote}
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>> posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Dec 2009 21:22 UTC, submitted by
>> SReilly
>>
>> IconWhat laptop does Richard Stallman use? A Dell, HP, maybe even an
>> Apple? No - RMS uses a rather odd laptop, a netbook powered by the
>> Chinese Loongson processor: the Yeeloong, a completely Free laptop. From
>> BIOS to operating system, this machine is completely open source. Wired
>> is running a very interesting article on the Loongson processor effort.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Of course, the Loongson chip still has a long way to go before it can
>> compete performance wise with Western products, but progress is being
>> made, and China is determined. "The country is incredibly motivated for
>> the project to succeed - it has become a cornerstone of the National High-
>> Tech R&D Program embarked upon in 1986," Wired writes, "And we know that
>> the Chinese are very good at leveraging economies of scale."
>>
>> Combine all this with the fact that the third generation Loongson chip
>> will include specific instructions to speed up x86-to-MIPS dynamic binary
>> translation, and you can see that the Chinese are really taking this
>> seriously.
>>
>> Which is good news for all of us. x86 Needs competition.
>> end{quote}
>>
>> http://www.osnews.com/story/22674/China_s_Loongson_Processor_Effort
>
> http://www.lemote.com/english/yeeloong.html
>
> They still need to make their own Southbridge and a couple of other
> components, though. Chips from Taiwan in a Chinese product!!!!
Sooner or later they'll come to Western shelves and cost under $100. Linux only.
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