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Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
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Subject: Re: RFI: Ethernet driver ported from Linux
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2007-Apr-21 03:20:08 +0400, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:
>> components forming the main system (CPU, RAM, bus, etc) it contains
>> an additional small embedded-style computer (seems to be m68k based)
> 
> PPC actually.

And very limited in what they've included in it's base OS (no telnet, no 
vi!).

> power control as well as system/environment monitoring (eg the CPU
> fans run at >16,000RPM).

And they're noisy suckers (pun intended) when the the SP is resetting or 
not running, as they default to max power when uncontrolled. The suction 
from the front is quite impressive. :)

Alan.