From owner-freebsd-small Tue Nov 10 00:44:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26814 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:44:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cnct.com (earth.cnct.com [165.254.118.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26670 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@cnct.com) From: jose@cnct.com Received: from localhost (jose@localhost) by cnct.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA21454; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:49:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:49:24 -0500 (EST) To: Mike Smith cc: chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC/104 and picobsd In-Reply-To: <199811092055.MAA00855@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > - 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