Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

Brian Cluff plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:08:39 -0700


I dunno...  why didn't they use Oboron, or even AmigaOS :)  They must have
seen something they liked.  It works really damn good, so I'm not going to
question their choice, although it might have worked equally as well with
AmigaOS ;)

Brian Cluff

----- Original Message -----

> So...
>   Why didn't they use Open BSD?
>
> (Hey, it was good enough for Apple!)
>
> >
> >
> > Let's see if I remember this...
> >
> > A tivo box is basicaly a 60Mhz PPC running Linux with a couple
proprietary
> > modules for handling the MPEG equipment built into it.
> >
> > Am I right?
>
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