From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 3 11: 8:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nerd.geekythings.com (nerd.geekythings.com [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B76437B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@geekythings.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by nerd.geekythings.com (8.11.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f63I8if43032; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:08:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc X-Sender: marc@localhost To: Bsdguru@aol.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <74.c9a1800.2873510f@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 Bsdguru@aol.com wrote: > 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. So try the MachZ processor then... -marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message