From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 30 13:57:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20137 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20125 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:57:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05681; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:57:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd005647; Sat Jan 30 14:57:23 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20635; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:57:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199901302157.OAA20635@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: USB drivers To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:57:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wes@softweyr.com, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Jan 30, 99 09:39:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Anyone considered building a PC whose only means of talking to > > > > the world is a USB port? > > > > > > SGI just started selling them. > > > > What are they called? I just finished searching their site with > > no luck... > > Perhaps you looked too hard. Their new NT workstation is what I was > referring to. It is quite an interesting beast. No traditional 16bit > firmware but uses ARC style firmware similar to the old mips NT boxes and > modern alpha boxes. All input peripherals are USB I think. Ah. I saw that. They want too much money. Check out: http://www.darter.com.tw/products/cpucard.html If you were willing to go with the previous generation of the hardware Stanford used, and be a bit larger (like the size to bolt to a 3.5" hard drive, then you can get the previous generation of the hardware for $299 (instead of $499). Of course, that includes video, instead of something useful like 10/100 or even more useful like USB/1394... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message