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Aha! I am mildly surprised I remembered that correctly as I hadn't thought about it in yeeears.

Thanks for the info :)

Is there any memoir, book, whatever detailing out decisions on the hardware? Like why did they go with the 603? etc?

I really wish there was some deep-dive book on the early history. I can't (well, couldnt. Havent looked in a while) find much info on the original hobbit based system.

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The initial BeBox prototypes used AT&T Hobbit processors and DSP’s. When AT&T dropped the Hobbit, they chose PowerPC over a risc system from HP. At that point in time, all these non x86 systems seemed to be gathering industry support. Then WinTel exploded into the market hungry for cheap vanilla systems.

IIRC, there was a big load of details on everything to do with the BeBox and all the decisions made and even a timeline and an interview with Joe Palmer on BeBox.nu. You can probably still read it via Archive.org. I wonder what happened to Andrew Lampert... he vanished off the web. I really miss BeBox.nu and lost touch with a bunch of people when it vanished.

Cale Lewis/Dlazlo - if you read this or if anyone knows him please chime in below ;-) He was like the best guy on those forums. Miss that guy.

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