In a message dated 07/03/2001 11:57:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> > Now try to imagine a whole PC on a smaller board than a PIII CPU
>  > cartridge. If you can't, get a copy of the Embedded Systems magazine 
>  > and look at the pictures in it.
>  
>  Imagine a complete 80186 system with 512k RAM and 512K flash disk, two
>  serial ports, 14 digital IO lines and an Ethernet in a 32 pin DIL package.
>  They are planning to replace the 80186 module by a 80386 in a few weeks.
>  If you can't belive it you might take a look at www.bcl.de. Now if it only
>  had enough flash for a PicoBSD it might make a good pocket ISDN router...
>  

We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet, 
so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here.

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