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Subject: Re: Frame Relay and FreeBSD
To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying:
> 
> > One thing to keep in mind is that PCs also come in 4"x4"x4" cubes that
> > are expandible via PC-104 bus cards.  Something like this could easily
> > stack like firewood to fill a small space in little time.  Put a
> > ramdisk or flashram card inot this mix, run FreeBSD on it and you have
> > a nice little box.  I believe that these boxes are 100% PC compatible,
> > but am not 100% positive.  They are showing up in places like the
> > Circuit Cellar magazine.  I don't hink you'll find a pentium on one of
> > these boxes, but I recall seeing 386 and 486 in them.
> 
> These are the absolute craze in automation and industrial environments.
> You can get P5s, I've even seen a P6 prerelease.

A couple of problems with these units :

  Co$t (Especially for anything more than a 486DLC
  Heat dissipation
  PC-104 is ISA on a different connector

Having said that, if space is critical, they're a great way to go.

> Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.

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