> I started designing a computer which was basically nothing. It has ports > for a monitor, keyboard, audio I/O, and PCMCIA. It's powered by a 100MHz > StrongARM and has a linux kernel in flash. The shell is minimal, having > only very basic commands, such as telnet and shutdown. It should run on > two AAA batteries. Can you really put this together? Who makes the motherboard? What makes you think 2 AAA's will be enough? > Add a cellular modem PCMCIA and you have a system that will let you > harness the power of the damn fast computer sitting on your desktop at home. This is a weak link. I've heard nasty things about latency over cell-modem. I wouldn't want to rely on a telnet link to do actual work if the latency numbers I got (long since gone from my memory) are right. What's wrong with putting in a small harddrive and having a real computer? Battery weight? -sam
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