Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:50:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, jehamby@lightside.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BeBox mention of FreeBSD... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960611104743.19185P-100000@zap.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199606110057.KAA07546@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> It's just not up to surviving a 'factory floor' environment. It needs
> an IP555 or better case to start with, and a real power supply.
I think he was referring to the architecture of the box, rather
than the (one) physical implementation. It will definitely need an
industrial-strength case and power supply, a filtered air cooling
system and a rack-mount chassis. Still, it seems like overkill using
a BeBox as a controller when an old C64 or Apple II or IBM XT would
do...
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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