From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 5 15:09:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12489 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:09:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rachel (mail.glenatl.glenayre.com [157.230.160.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA12460 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:09:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com) Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com by rachel (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA01515; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:01:40 -0400 Received: from jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA11763; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:01:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810052201.SAA11763@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Peter Wallace cc: Jerry Hicks , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:44:48 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:01:29 -0400 From: Jerry Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [snips] > > And I think you meant 4 Mbit are the smallest devices you are using (providing > > only 524288 bytes of raw capacity). Twelve dollars is the amount for flash > > chips, not a usable 'flash drive'. > > No, $12.00 is for 4M bytes (32 Mbit chip - TC58V32 same as > SmartMedia in different package) -- added circuitry for a flash drive is > less than $1.00 for a software FFS flash drive and about $11.00 for an > hardware IDE compatible flash drive. WoW! Nifty.... :-) Cheers, Jerry Hicks jerry.hicks@glenayre.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message