Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:19:56 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) Message-ID: <199602031619.LAA25163@etinc.com>
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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.
Oh..they get built, but by the time they work everyone wants something
different!
db
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