From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 3 9:47:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-r10.mx.aol.com (imo-r10.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C26237B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 09:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bsdguru@aol.com) Received: from Bsdguru@aol.com by imo-r10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id n.74.c9a1800 (3974) for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Bsdguru@aol.com Message-ID: <74.c9a1800.2873510f@aol.com> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:47:11 EDT Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 07/03/2001 11:57:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, noses@noses.com writes: > > Now try to imagine a whole PC on a smaller board than a PIII CPU > > cartridge. If you can't, get a copy of the Embedded Systems magazine > > and look at the pictures in it. > > Imagine a complete 80186 system with 512k RAM and 512K flash disk, two > serial ports, 14 digital IO lines and an Ethernet in a 32 pin DIL package. > They are planning to replace the 80186 module by a 80386 in a few weeks. > If you can't belive it you might take a look at www.bcl.de. Now if it only > had enough flash for a PicoBSD it might make a good pocket ISDN router... > We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet, so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here. B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message