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Linux for Nintendo 64 (1997)

line German version As early as Comdex fall 95 Netscape Corp. is said to have presented a port of their Navigator to the Mips CPU based Nintendo 64 behind closed doors.

Talking to iX during the 1996 GUUG meeting, SCO's Doug Michels, too, regarded alliances with Sega or Nintendo as a "real option", especially as far as the postitioning of the Network Computer against the wintel dominance is concerned. Insiders assume that Netscape's initiative failed because of a personal animosity between young entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and the very conservative Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamaushi. The prototyp available at editorial deadline hasn't yet got a reliable network connection, because there are still problems between the manually soldered 100 MBit/s Digital 21140 chip and the 93.75 MHz of the R4300i CPU.

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