[MLB-WIRELESS] Mini PCs (slightly OT)

[Donovan Baarda]

Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:48:51 +1000, Nick Sibbing  
> <Nick.Sibbing at arts.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> A customer of mine asked about Australian suppliers for small form  
>> factor pcs eg the VIA eden series that we had some interest in on 
>> this  list some time back.
> 
> 
> I breifly looked at the PC104 format (about half the size of mini ITX,  
> IIRC - about the size of a PCI card), but never really go a good idea 
> of  capacity or hardware requirements (like does it require some sort 
> of  backplane arrangement).  does any one know any more about this stuff 
> who  can give us a heads up?

PC104 is ISA on a stackable header. The cards are around 10cm square (or 
was that 12cm?). It's kinda old now, and I believe there is now compact 
PCI, which is a PCI equivalent.

Most PC104 stuff is probably 486 level, which is still viable for most 
stuff. However, because it was targeted at specialist embedded systems 
applications, it was disturbingly expensive. miniITX will give you a 
hundred times the performance for fraction of the cost.

That is, unless you can find someone off-loading them cheap because they 
are so old....

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Donovan Baarda

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