At 17:17 22/06/99 -0700, Terry Ewing wrote:
>Hello,
> I am in a situation where I need some help. I need to build a computer
>to place at a customer site. Because of the requirements, Linux and an ARM
>processor seem like they'd be perfect. Here is the situation:
>-It needs to be fully enclosed. The environment may contain a heavy amount
>of crud that could screw up a fan. It would also be nice to not have a
>requirement about the fan being 10 inches from a wall.
I would consider something like the Corel Netwinder and see if you can
modify it approprietly or enclose it in something. It does contain a hard
drive,
I'm not sure if there is any easy way to replace this with say a compact
flash disc if needed.
>
>-It needs to run some perl scripts and some custom C code. This is where
>the bulk of the CPU time will go. I need a fairly powerful processor
>(right now I use a pentium 133 and it's barely enough)
A 200MHz StrongARM is in the same ball park as the P133 I reckon; but
without the floating point support (I hope you didn't want that!).
Something else you might consider, depending on the exact problem is one
or more EBSA285 evaluation cards on a PCI backplane and with a power supply
of your choice.
Dave
P.S. Wierd thought: The Empeg (www.empeg.com) probably doesn't have a fan, is
self contained etc (?)
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