Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Feb 2000 15:18:48 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux |
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 11:56:34AM +1100, Nathan Hand wrote:
> I believe it's possible, but I think Larry's estimates of 50% extra cost > ($200 -> $300) are off the wall. The Itsy shows you can make Linux boxes > small enough, but the pricetag (several thousand $) also shows that it's > economically impractical.
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> Yup. 100mhz Pentium and motherboard is literally $50, including case and > NIC and RAM. Shove a $200 disk inside and I effectively get exactly what > Larry's talking about (hot swappable ethernet interfaced disk drive) but > my version is a bit bigger. Space doesn't concern me. Dollars do.
If these were produce 'en mass (which I think is what Larry is suggesting), then I don't see why it isn't possible.
I don't think anyone reasonable expects to get a smart appliance with 256M of ram and PIII-733 performance for that kind of money, but I don't wee why fast 486/Pentium speed with 8/16M of memory isn't possible... and thanks to Moore's Law, this will change.
-cw
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