From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 11 07:51:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05111 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA05099 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 07:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA03246; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:48:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:50:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Michael Smith cc: Terry Lambert , jehamby@lightside.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BeBox mention of FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: <199606110057.KAA07546@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... [-hackers removed from the cc:] -- 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"