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		BrainInAJar on Feb 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Richard Stallman's Computer Setup I'm surprised he even compromises on the CPU instead of using OpenSPARC or something

bwarp on Feb 4, 2012 [–]

OpenSPARC is not open believe it or not. You still need a license to fab it or use it.

I went through this a while ago with someone who likes SPARC and wanted an implementation on FPGA.

Ended up with a licensed MIPS core because it was significantly cheaper on cells in the FPGA.

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