Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

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Author: Brian Cluff
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Subject: Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box
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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