Thomas M. wrote:
> I know of a guy, which have designed a small board with a 386, 1Mbyte
> flash and ethernet onboard. It's designed for linux (It's called Linux In
> A Board). Maybe it could be used for a new design? The price should be
> arround 800Dkk. or 123$, when (and if) it comes in to production.
I think you don't understand the real problem: how to connect a high
speed
device to the computer. If you put a "linux-box" the problem still
exists
in the linux box :-)
There is 2 kinds of solutions:
* A board
- PCI
- Ethernet. TAPR guys where doing (?) radio-modems with this
interface.
- Special, like SCC, PI2, etc...
* Using Ports:
- Serial = too slow
- EPP = Good, look at baycom
- USB = Why not ?
- Other
All this solutions are good, the more we have, the better !
And very important: think in the money. Using existing ports can save
very much. Today 90%(?) of computers have USB and EPP, that is surely
simpler than doing a PCI board !
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Saludos de Juli�n
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