I agree that StrongARM is going nowhere. Intel bought it and will basically kill it. It will be used in select systems like the netwinder, but I doubt it will go far. Intel has too much invested in the (Pentium) x86 market to go changing things. As far as the PC-104 goes, check out Digitals ITSY site from the Western research Lab. http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/itsy/ This guy does not seem to be larger than the PC-104 standard. It's too bad we can't get our hands on this guy. Ken On 7 Oct 1998 18:53:27 -0400, bhurle1@umbc.edu (hurley bryan) wrote: >exactly, go to http://www.acorn.com and they have actual desktops running >what they say is the RISC OS, though they can run Linux I assume too. You >can get a pccard like piece of hardware with a 486 or 586 on it that you >can just stick in and run windows or dos or whatever on it, then when you >are done using the processor it gives all the memory etc that it was using >back to the main system; probably hot swappable too. That on a wearable >would be quite nice when you come into different environments. > >They have some NICs, but the netwinder would be better at the moment. > >using a 486/33/20/260 myself at the moment. > >Bryan > > >In article <6vggpe$ico$3@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, >Mark Willey <willey@keymaster.etla.net> wrote: >>If you restrict yourself to PC-104, this is true. However, StrongARM is the >>best power/price/performance option. If you're willing to do some >>customizations beyond stacking PC-104 cards, then go StrongARM. >> >>BTW, Intel is actively developing StrongARM. They've got an entire design >>team down in Arizona working on it. Unfortunately, I think they are going >>to bumble with StrongARM because they are uncomfortable with it's price and >>performance competing with the desktop. "Intel, change happens. Either >>make the change, or lose fighting it." IMHO. >> >>Mark >> > >
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