yeah... Ive been considering something like that. I have a cf pcmcia adapter, and cant find my camera... I saw a cf card on sale somewhere (think it was like 256mb. I could build a small system on that card (maybe even have X on it. or possibly a wireless firewall box (put a wireless card in the other slot, and you a have a wireless gateway.
Jamie On Monday 17 November 2003 04:49 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: : ...that's what I thought you meant. Well, you can have that today! : Just put in the IDE-CF adapter, and the "special" magical mystery memory : is a CF that you boot from. It is "programmable" as you call it, : meaning you can write a new OS to it, and it is nonvolatile. : The problem with using a DIMM socket for this, as I see it, is that : today's motherboards (and yesterday's) are created to handle RAM and : drives, but not either on the other's interface! So, to do this you put : CF on the *IDE* interface, and RAM on the *memory* interface. : Can anyone speak at greater length about this? Is it the North bridge? : (The south bridge handles PCI, right? or does it also do the IDE?) : : ciao, : : Ben : : : On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:33:29 -0500 : : Linux Rocks ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : | What I was thinking was something like a simm(dimm... whatever) that : | you pop in where you would normally have simm/dimms (say you have 3 : | slots, put one that is the operating system, the other 2 are primary : | storage as usual) The one simm would be nonvolitle ram so it doesnt go : | away on power cycle. It wold ofcourse want to be programmable so you : | can upgrade the OS. really a simple concept... : | : | Jamie : : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- ���`����,��,����`�������`����,��,����`�������`����,��,����`���� The Famous Joke of the Day One Liner! It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
