PC/104

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> It's not related meaningfully to "Linux in cell phones;" the PC104
> standard is a motherboard standard for motherboards that are about
> 3.6"x3.8" in size, which won't fit into most cell phones.
>
> PC104 gets used quite a lot for embedded and industrial computers that
> need to be "small but not tiny"; it is unlike the cell phone
> environment in that it is not *nearly* as constrained:
>
In addition, in favour of PC104:

They have things like large RAM and solid-state disk drives on a periferal
card, suitable enclosures and power supplies, all of which makes a nice
mechanical package.

They have specifically addressed issues such as temperature and vibration.
(Whether a PC104 computer is *actually* more reliable than something
off-the-shelf, I'm not sure.)

Against: Because of smaller volume sales, PC104 hardware tends to be
pricey and an equivalent commondity-based PC is much less expensive. (The
last time I looked.)

My impression is that code is directly portable from a desktop machine to
a PC104 system, so there is very little learning curve.

-- 
Peter Hiscocks
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http://www.syscompdesign.com
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