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Re: [LUG] Single Board Computer

 

ANDREW PRATT wrote:
> Hello,
> This is the first post that I have made. I have been using Linux for about three 
> years now using Slackware and Slax.
> I am sending this on a single board computer that is actually intended for 
> embedded applications.
> I bought it from RS Components, it comes as a single circuit board approximately 
> 90mm x 90mm, with a 133MHz fanless 486 processor and 64MB of RAM. 
> I pre-installed Slackware 11 on an old 20GB hard drive using another PC and 
> transferred it to this computer.
> The power consumption is very low, not including the monitor it takes 1.7 amps at 
> 5 Volts. I have an web based application in mind for it using a PIC processor and 
> the Apache web server. It has four com ports and ethernet.
> I am using the Lynx command line web browser, X is a bit ambitious! 
> Anyone else with a similar interest?
>
>
> Andy
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Welcome to the list, and good to hear from another member, Would be good 
to have a demo of this at some point perhaps at a future lug meet

Do you have any links to this device or similar, a google search 
revealed this

http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-5500

which seems to be pentium based. I didn't realise they were still making 
these processors,


Paul



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