>>Some of what I envision is to have these little buggers act as mini
>>routers/servers for both in the home/office and as an alternative to
>>tying-up telco companies.
>
>
>You're saying you wanna get linux running on a PIC? Good luck! That
>would be quite an acomplishment, I would think! I didn't think they
>could even run code out of external ram, but then I'm ignorant when it
>comes ot PICs.
>
True, most cannot and in fact I do not want them to! For a machine
running some sort of linux the PIC is no contest and beat hands down!
Give it forth inside and use the i/o pins for memory access then you have
a start. Give it some latches and you have 32bit access... You may only
have the equivalent to an old IBM PC running at ~4Mhz but it can do
everything you want.
>>My wishes are for an SBC with PowerPC chip, Backside Cache, Ram slot, Rom
>>Slot, and maybe 16 bits of I/O space.... Cost 200-300, Tops.
>
>This would be ideal for me, if the PPC was in the 350MHz range, don't
>care about the cost that much. Let us know if you find such a SBC. Moto
>has ppc SBCs that run in the 40MHz range which is too small for me.
>
I bet it has every bell and whistle that makes an embedded processor
great! Not for me, I want the basics RAW POWER!
>Jay
Why am I doing this? Doesn't everyone want a computer they can afford to
lose? Does the basics and is flexable enough to be made to do waht they
want? I do, and would buy one for about $100-$200. Pilot does some of
it. Some people just want to E-Mail a letter to aunt sophie without
spending more than $500.
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