From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 08:20:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA08262 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 08:20:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08204 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 08:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA25163 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:19:56 -0500 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:19:56 -0500 Message-Id: <199602031619.LAA25163@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 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. Oh..they get built, but by the time they work everyone wants something different! db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous PC Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX.