On 09/22/2016 03:07 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:07 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) > <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> wrote: > >> As a user, I would expect to be sold a router housing and a router >> EOMA68 computer card. I would expect the router housing to be able to >> host my desktop card as well. I would also expect the router card to >> work in my desktop housing. > > provision of power is about the common denominator: i already > outlined the example where use of the OTG port and HDMI cable would > allow the CPU-Card-With-The-Desktop-OS to be useful and functional. > anything else that you get (such as a USB-based WIFI adapter or > USB-based Ethernet port) is a "plus" but is in no way guaranteed and > should in no way be *expected*, either. >
Yes, exactly. > the other way round is unlikely to work and, if you did not then seek > out (at your own expense and initiative) a replacement OS, replacing > the Router OS with a Desktop OS, then that is your lookout. also: > router cards are quite likely to be 120 to 500mhz single-core MIPS > processors with on-board RAM restricted to potentially as little as 8 > MB (yes 8 MEGABYTES - that's eight MB). if you are *genuinely* > expecting a 120mhz processor with 8mb of RAM to be capable of running > a Desktop OS, you are (to put it mildly) completely delusional. > > basically it's necessary to apply some common sense, here. > No, no, that’s not what I meant. What I meant is that when plugging in the router card into a desktop housing, it should still work *as a router* (as in, bootable and maybe a dumb switch). The housing may not have the required ports of course for proper usage as a router and the router OS is probably (hopefully, security-wise) not usable as a desktop OS, but it should show something like a tty on the display. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk