RE: Embedded and Real-time systems

[Celley, Drew]

 Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of a cheap SBC with 
 an x86 CPU,
 EPROM, RAM and a serial interface at least on?

Cheap is relative. I think cheap would be like $50 for an SBC, but I
can't find any that cheap. Currently, I'm teaching myself some of the
grounding for creating my own SBC, and anything anyone else can contribute,
or directions to point me in are greatly appreciated.

RE: Anybody using this list?

[Celley, Drew]

 Just thought I'd see if there was anybody here, since I'm 
 brand new to this.
 I'm hoping to get ELKS on my Toshiba T1200 notebook (8086-10, 
 640K ram, dual
 720K floppies) and use it as a serial console for all of my 
 nifty serial
 devices (hubs, routers, sun boxen, etc.)  Anybody tried 
 anything similar
 yet?

a 720K floppy can contain DOS and Telix -- just enough to use the
serial port for such configs. This is just a suggestion, there's no reason
you *shouldn't* use linux anyway. Are there terminal-emmulation packages for
ELKS?