[geeks] Ideas

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:51:25AM -0500, vance at neurotica.com 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.
> I'd actually prefer not a PC, as they don't have serial console support,
> and can't netboot.  Plus they suck.

There's plenty of ARM boards which don't require turbo-nutter-ninja cooling.
whether they support a console and net booting, I don't know.

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