[ale] crusoe chip?

[Mike Panetta]

Um, well for starters they are in a BGA package, so soldering them to
something would be a real PITA.  Second, they are not pin, nor are they
bus compatible with any X86 CPU out there on the market,  Sure you can
put a PCI bridge (and thus a PCI->ISA bridge) on the same board with
them, but the main bus that they have is not pin compatible (is that the
correct term?) with the Pentium busses because they are all propriatary,
so they wont just slip into say a socket370 MB or a socket A MB. 

You really want a motherboard with one of these on it, not a chip. 
Believe me :)

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:15, Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey, slightly off topic perhaps but still intended for linux! i have been
> looking to aquire a transmeta crusoe processor, ive looked around on
> google a bit and at price watch, are these things not for individual sale?
> id like to run a couple linux projects with them if i can find them. any
> ideas or sources anyone might be familiar with?
> 
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