On Wed, 29 May 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 06:59 , Simon Lyall wrote:
I hope this is a joke. Nice to see where our money goes.
Lots of appliances are built around commodity x86 motherboards and standard PC components.
You're presumably paying for what the box can do, not a simple summation of the cost of its components. If what the box can do does not justify the price, don't buy it. This is not rocket science.
agreed - look at the juniper routing engines for example (although they aren't exactly standard motherboards). The software images are probably linux with special binary only kernel modules & userspace software - but it's not a case of what it's made out of, but what it does. this is what embedded linux is all about cheers -- Brendan Black - ratfink(a)xtra.co.nz UK mobile: +44 7941 647890 Linux User# 44680 Memory is like an orgasm - it's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. - Seymour Cray - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog