>> Because PPC is dead.

>It wasn't in 2000, no matter how much you wish it was. The notion that PPC was dead back then because some guy unnecessarily tried and failed to design his own custom PPC northbridge chip is beyond stupid.

Not sure that with Power9 it can be said to be completely dead yet.
Oh and "beyond stupid", maybe just really hard headed.

>> The Efika and Sam were at the absolute limit of CPU power required
>> to run a desktop system.

>Yes, I would have never bought one of these slouches for desktop use, not even when they were new.

I might have considered a SAM460, if only for the PCIe expansion, but the Erika had issues (in particular with the PATA port and the limitations to the length of the drive cable).



[ Edited by Jim 17.08.2018 - 11:26 ]