Re: Black box heaven or the real BDI

Fred

<rant on> One thing that needs to be clarified in this black box discussion
-- in light of your repeated desire to learn nothing about Linux -- is that
the black box is just that. It has a net plug on one end, power in on one
side, and motor signals and swtch pins on the other end. The specific
features of the pc inside the box makes little difference at all except for
size, price, and specifications for max pulses per second. The admonition,
"no user or imserv servicable components or software" needs to be printed in
bold letters on the box and in our thinking. </rant>

One could build a standalone emc, with the essential interfaces, to run from
64 Meg ROM. A networked box with the gui and such elsewhere could be cut
down to 16 Meg. Real-time Linux can easily boot from a floppy. Netboot,
except for net identity, resides on 0 Meg ROM.

The EMC running standalone on a light window manager needs no swap with 64
Meg RAM.

HTH

RayH

>    From: "IMService" <imserv@...>
> Subject: Re: EMC Black Box

<s>

> We are on the same wavelength here Lloyd.  I would be concerned about the
> cost of the flash ROMS though.  The usual minimum capacity I hear about EMC
> is 500 MEG and that would seem to be a little expensive for flash.