Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:43:09 +0100 From: Cristian Angelini <chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC/104 and picobsd Message-ID: <3647FC9C.2895EAAB@biella.alpcom.it> References: <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.) There will be only two boards: the PC and a I/O board, probably some trick on the parallel i/f. Then a serial GSM modem, but this a completely different story, we're still looking for good products and I don't think that exist one in pc/104 format. > Aside from that, you can do almost all your early prototype work with a > standard PC, cutting over at the last minute and saving lots of time > and effort. Yes, that's why we're choosing a pc board instead of some strange cpu with emulators and so on. What I need is the second step, a near final prototype: let's suppose I buy the 4c27 from Mesa (or some other card, but that it's still the first in our list). It's all I need, beside some power source - I was thinking to a classic second hand pc power supply - or should I buy something else ? Christian Angelini To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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