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Very Small Radios, Computers, Networks
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Introduction

After 42 years of playing with radios, ham, broadcast, tv-bc, satellite, military, and 38 years with mainframe down to laptop and a few embeddded smaller systems, seemed like time ..
Hunt up some really small radio, network, computer interfaces.
If the cell phone people with their economic objectives can impinge into this area, we can too.

The Question

Posted this enquiry to freebsd-small@freebsd.org .. a managed mailing list try majordomo@freebsd.org .. help to get on... Back to Radio Back to Cotdazr.org

 Everett wrote:  
 Subject: Re: What is the b-mark [benchmark] small affordable Host ?

 To build a router, radio interface, spread spectrum intreface on
 "small FreeBSD" has there been a [study] of what is the smallest
 "hardware platform" 386, 486, X86 m-board, FlashDisk, power supply
 that can be assembled in the small footprint, dollar and [..] power
 consumption model.

 I have seen a PC in a cigar box somewhere .. but didn't think it
 was low power ..

And SO ..

 Looks like the makings of an other web page .. for now it will have
 to go into the http://radio.cotdazr.org area ..

 ... Hope to participate in the search for the really small PC
 Host for router / dsss / dgps / data radio gadget box ..
 
  I will appreciate your help in the criteria department ..

Criteria ..

Watts / Milliwatts - ( active | sleeping )

CPU

Volatile memory ( amount, types )

NV Memory ( amount, types )

Single board, bus,

included I/o devs

More ???

Thanks for the help getting started ..
Send email to Everett

The Replies and Leads

From the majordomo managed list: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG

Credit and Thanks to: "Michael S. O'Donnell" and

Credit and Thanks to: John Oram

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:53:56PM -0500, Michael S. O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a similar project, in all my spare time with the
> added requirements of a small nfs.  radio interface is in the
> future.  my budget is nil.  I'll be researching Mr. Oram's
> recommendations and will add a few of my own.  please keep 
> the list updated with your progress.
> thanks,
> Michael S. O'Donnell
> mso@bus.net

> Sources I've come across:

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 10:05:00AM -0800, John Oram wrote:

We have a [ .. ] board that has always been used in PC laptops and
wireline telco in field locations. The boards design has evolved to
the point where we are also thinking along the same lines of your
email below.

If my previous email didn't have enough ideas. Send me one directly
and I'll look up some of the other places that might be helpful.

John Oram
Sacramento, CA

Later ..

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 10:00:47AM -0800, John Oram wrote:

Some places to look are:

JumpTec	www.jumptec.com	DimmPC
Cell Computing, Inc.	www.cellcomputing.com	CardPC
Epson Electronics	www.smos.com	Card-PC
CompuLab	www.compulab.co.il	i960 micro-cards and a new 486-based one.
ZF Micro	www.zfmicro.com	386-based PC-on-chip, claimed price is $50, claimed shipping is in Jan. 2000

Take a look at the work at Stanford University with their


Matchbox PC & Matchbox server

Also look at for possibly the "smallest web server" around.

John Oram

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