Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 00:24:00 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602020824.AAA12804@netcom22.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 96 11:49:28 %2B1030." <199602020119.LAA25593@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> > May be one of those single board computers (aka SBC) built
> > around a 286 will do the trick? 2ser+1par+memory+cpu etc.
> > are all on an ISA card and you can plug one or more of these
> > in an ISA `passive backplane'. If you are in the SF Bay
> I can think of better and cheaper ways to make smoke with
> my computer. Stuffing alfoil into the ISA slots comes to mind.
Care to elaborate? Perhaps you are generalizing your own bad
experience a bit too far? There are all sorts of ISA cards
with memory,cpu,IO etc. -- nothing magic in that.
> IIRC, these guys are F1-based. Try getting P&A on an F1 these
> days.
No, {handy,mini}board use E9 which has 2K eeprom.
> Seriously, you're wandering into gross overkill here.
The point was that if people just want some sort of watchdog
gizmo, starting from existing kits/boards is a lot faster.
Pie-in-the-sky boards are fun to dream about but they never
get built.
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