Dr . David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > At 17:17 22/06/99 -0700, Terry Ewing wrote: > >-It needs to be fully enclosed. The environment may contain a heavy amount > >of crud that could screw up a fan. It would also be nice to not have a > >requirement about the fan being 10 inches from a wall. > > I would consider something like the Corel Netwinder and see if you can > modify it approprietly or enclose it in something. Its actually the Rebel NetWinder now, and it more information on it can be found at http://www.rebel.com. > It does contain a hard drive, I'm not sure if there is any > easy way to replace this with say a compact flash disc if needed. I bought a 20MB flash drive from SanDisk to try in it. This should work. > >-It needs to run some perl scripts and some custom C code. This is where > >the bulk of the CPU time will go. I need a fairly powerful processor > >(right now I use a pentium 133 and it's barely enough) The NetWinder uses an Intel StrongARM CPU running at 275 MHz. It's in the same ballpark as a Pentium 180-200. I suspect it will have enough horsepower unless you need to do floating point calculations. Scott
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