[rescue] WTB: sbus 10mbit ethernet NIC & 20A power cable

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Jul 5 14:12:36 CDT 2002


On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:08:46PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On July 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > >   Think big, man.  BIG.
> > 
> > He probably was.  Big power bill.  Monstrous power bill.  Backruptcy
> > inducing power bill.
> 
>   Well PeeCees pull very little power, so running a PeeCee will result
> in a lower computer-related power bill.  But then you'd have a PeeCee.

Actually, I though PCs took a disgustingly huge amount of power.
Isn't that one of the major arguments for embeded r4k, r5k, and PPC
for embeded platforms?
 
>   Sneakers are cheaper than cars, too...but you can't do as much with
> them.

But if you can't afford a car (a position I'm familiar with due to
past experience) you make do.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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