[geeks] Even Tiny-er PC MB announced - PicoATX

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/01/26 Fri PM 02:40:26 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Even Tiny-er PC MB announced - PicoATX

>Mike Hebel wrote:
>> Thus spake Lionel Peterson:
>>> I have a laptop with a bigger power brick than this CPU MB:
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2154184680.html
>>>
>>> Link to PicoATX MB story - a Via 1GHz MB expected to sell for $250-350...
>> 
>> I love the one line: "Servers in Altoid tins anyone?"
>> 
>>> Wonder if Solaris x86 would run on it...
>> 
>> I'm betting that with the C7 chip it's at least x86 compatible so you
>> could probably run it in some vanilla or stripped down form.
>
>I've run Solaris on a C3, so I'm reasonably certain that it'll run on a C7.

It's video should be supported, I imagine the networking will be OK, and the 
VIA CPUs seem to be supported by Solaris, so you could put a Solaris x86 
system inside a multi-pack drive case ;^)

Lionel