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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Obatala's Revenge: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by meninarmer: [qb] One area African nation are far behind is in the area of computer technology. The reason; African Brain drain, where any African with prominent skills is exported outside of Africa by many of the world's largest corporations. One of these corporations is the Sun Corporation which a few years ago purchased a company headed by an African Mathematician/Engineer who developed a new computer architecture for processing many multiple threads simultaneously. The architecture now is contained in Sun's most expensive products. In the spirit of the open source movement, Sun has just released the RTL, or documentation to the public which allow anyone to develop their own versions of this Super-computer using off-the-shelf components which negate the need for a semiconductor fabrication venture. This release presents itself as a fantastic opportunity for African developers to acquire the Intellectual Property (IP) free of charge, and develop "Africanized" versions for internal consumption. Anyone interested in gaining a copy of the full specification can download the PDF or purchase a hard copy for ~$20. Following that, all one requires is a VHDL compiler abd a FPGA/ASIC to develop your own multicore, 64-bit processor that when complete, will run any flavor of the multiple available, free Linux distros such as Ubuntu or Suse. [URL=http://www.sun.com/offers/details/OpenSPARC_Internals_Book.html]Free Dowload of Sun SPARC T1/T2 Functional Specification[/URL] [IMG]http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d25/GoldenMenes/0105wsunf1-1.jpg[/IMG] [/qb][/QUOTE]I like Sun. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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