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SubjectRe: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux
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.

[...]

> 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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