On Wed 19 Aug, Andrew Coles wrote:
> I'm thinking of selling my StrongARM Risc PC and spending the proceeds on a
> CATS system and a real PC. As I see it:

Why would you want both ?

> 1) My 5x86 PC Card is rubbish - sorry anyone, but it's slower than a P75
> most the time

Sure. But that's old news.....

> 2) The StrongARM is very under-used in the RPC

You mean, you don't use RISC-OS too often.....

> 3) Phoebe is overpriced for a student who now has to buy his own kit
> (parents wouldn't :-( )

;-\
Phoebe is really very pricey.

> 4) The CATS board is highly specced and low priced

Compared to Phoebe, of course.

> Just a thought - I'd welcome any opinions from anyone. Oh, and yes I do
> still want my current problem of getting the RPCINST kernel to work solving

You can run NetBSD on right about any platform (even arm32).
You could just run it on the PC....

The CATS is mostly for the NC-dev crowd, IIRC.

You could also take the money for Phoebe and buy an equaliy priced Alpha
instead. You'd never be pained by things like "lack of FP"" then....

'Unreal' will go, others will come and soon your shiny new PC can't
keep-up anymore.


cheers,
Rainer
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