From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 11:08:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA02138 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA02000 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:09:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom22.netcom.com (bakul@netcom22.netcom.com [192.100.81.136]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA04737 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:26:22 -0800 Received: from localhost by netcom22.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id AAA12804; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:24:06 -0800 Message-Id: <199602020824.AAA12804@netcom22.netcom.com> To: Michael Smith cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 96 11:49:28 +1030." <199602020119.LAA25593@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 96 00:24:00 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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.