[geeks] Ideas

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Wed Dec 11 08:51:25 CST 2002


On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> > I am going to try my hand at building a silent computer.  I'm taking
> > ideas.  I need floating-point, and ethernet or PCI, and I'd like to have
> > built-in sound, and a serial console.  The system will not have a floppy,
> > CD-ROM, or HDD, and I was thinking of putting it in a 1U rackmount box.
>
> Are you thinking PC? Or something else?

I'd actually prefer not a PC, as they don't have serial console support,
and can't netboot.  Plus they suck.

Peace...  Sridhar



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