From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 19:37:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190E416A4BF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028E043FBF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963975B66D; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:35:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: "C. Kukulies" , hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:37:23 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310101417.h9AEHb4n025071@www.kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <200310101417.h9AEHb4n025071@www.kukulies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310101937.23785.wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: smallest piece of hardware that runs *BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:37:26 -0000 On Friday 10 October 2003 07:17 am, C. Kukulies wrote: > 1990: In ten years, computers will just be bumps in cables. (Gordon > Bell) > > Remember that quote? > > Now, we are not far from that. I'm thinking of some CPU with TP > Ethernet and memory of size of an USB stick. Anyone knowing such or > having experience? Grab a copy of Embedded Systems Programming, there are ads for things like this all over near the back of the magazine. In particular, the chip in whatever USB stick you're looking at probably has an 8-bit CPU of some sort in it. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com