Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:49:24 -0500 (EST) From: jose@cnct.com To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC/104 and picobsd Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.05.9811100338090.20930-100000@cnct.com> In-Reply-To: <199811092055.MAA00855@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> - The PC-104 form factor was designed by a complete idiot; the boards > are hard to mount, there is no standard for interface connectors, > and if you want more than one or two boards, you end up with a very > large, dense block which can be very difficult to fit into your unit. > (I have heard several tales of stacks of 10 or more boards.) on many occasions, i've found that a small standard motherboard with a riser takes up less space and is cheaper than a pc-104 solution.. for a current fluff project, i'm using an isa 386 mb i picked up at a swap-meet that's 1/2" wider that a 16bit slot and 8" long, and loading it with 2" high isa cards (so far: i/o controller, video card, and nic, searching for a suitable soundcard right now :). it's not a riser or pc-104 solution, but the small dimensions of the mb along with the short isa cards make it ideal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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