On 10/2/2010 4:08 PM, Michael wrote:
Chris and Darrick, thanks for the feedback. I think I'll end up with
another ALIX of some sort.
Regards,
Michael Sprague
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Darrick Hartman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 09/23/2010 10:25 AM, Chris Abnett wrote:
> Ive seen those boards before.. im a little apprehensive when it
says it
> is a 486SX processor which would indicate no math coprocessor..
not sure
> how it would handle transcoding and the like…
>
I know I'm a little late to the 'party' on this one. But, I recently did
serious evaluation of the NetX86 platform for an internal project at
work for a CPE type device. In a nutshell, the SX version was completely
unusable with Asterisk due to floating point issues. The DX version was
'neat' but I found most software does not cleanly compile for i486
without some modifications. And, those that did cleanly compile ran
rather 'slow'. I don't have any exact metrics or test results, but
overall, the price/performance ratio was not what we were looking for in
a telephony/communications type device. I would certainly use that
platform for something like a console server, router, etc but not
something 'realtime' like voice. The Geode provides a much better platform.
Just my (belated) $0.02 USD.
--Tim
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