[geeks] Old hardware cut-off

[Phil Stracchino]

On 02/17/14 00:01, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Watching people fight about awful embedded chips just kills me.  In 
> 2014, a $20 Netra X1 is still a "fast enough" UNIX box with plenty of 
> RAM.  It eats 20-40W.  If you are sweating electrical costs for less 
> power than a light bulb, power isn't the real problem.

Hmmmmmmm.  You do raise a good point ... but is there any way to get
four Ethernet interfaces into one?  I see no expansion slot at all in
the X1.

Now, a Netra T1 might work, but it's only going to have a single 32-bit
PCI 1.0 slot.  And I'd have to find SCSI disks for it.


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