Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:20:14 (NZDT) From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can someone recommend small hardware?? Message-ID: <94087921404813@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Kevin Lynn <klynn@santacruz.org> writes: >Cell computing is a tad expensive IMHO. "tad" is an understatement. They're cool toys though. >Personally I'd try www.advantech.com There are lots of places which sell reasonably-priced PC104 stuff. Typical config is a 486 Elan (66 or 100MHz), 2MB flash, 16MB DRAM. Finding ones with Ethernet built in is a bit harder, but they're there. Some pointers: http://www.tme-inc.com/html/products/2111.htm http://www.compulab.co.il/486core.htm http://www.tme-inc.com/html/products/5811.htm http://www.ampltd.com/processors.html http://www.ampro.com/products/products.htm http://www.brightstareng.com/ (*drool*, but even more expensive than CellComp) http://www.calibri.net/ (no hang on, that's with Linux :-). http://www.eepd.com/t5.htm http://www.eagle.co.za/4823.html http://www.dspdesign.com/ec586d.htm http://www.globalamericaninc.com/Products/ge7500.htm http://www.globalamericaninc.com/Products/ge8200.htm http://www.jumptec.com/dimmpcf.html http://www.megatel.ca/pages/press.html http://www.netburner.com/productsnndk.htm (68K based, Small Matter of Programming) http://www.arcom.co.uk/Elan104.html http://www.web-tronics.com/webtronics/com486cpuboa.html http://www.aaeon.com/html/pcm4894.htm http://www.rtdusa.com/cmx586.htm http://www.versalogic.com/Ds/VSBC6.htm (some of those are more at the drool-toy than affordable level). Does anyone have any plans to build a generic ready-to-go PicoBSD distribution for this sort of platform? It'd be nice to have a generic, as-stripped-down- as-possible PC104 version where you just select your NIC type and then drop the whole lot on a generic board from your choice of vendor. You'd probably use about half the flash for that, leaving the other half available to implement your network-widget of choice. Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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