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From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] small node
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:27:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311032721.GX24164@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60903102019y47872dax6ba63d44794479cc@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:19:28PM -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
> How about: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html?
> 
> Literally plug it in and run...
> 
> "In typical use, the SheevaPlug draws about as much power as a night-light.
> Yet, with 512MB each of RAM and Flash, and a 1.2GHz CPU, the unobtrusive
> device approaches the computing power found in the servers of only a decade
> ago."

I keep thinking these would be more useful if they included HomePlug
(ethernet over powerline) connectivity (on the far side of an Ethernet chip,
tho', so we don't need yet another driver).

--nwf;

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 22:57 ron minnich
2009-03-10 23:11 ` hiro
2009-03-11  0:33   ` john
2009-03-11  3:19     ` David Leimbach
2009-03-11  3:27       ` Nathaniel W Filardo [this message]
2009-03-11  3:42         ` john
2009-03-11  3:52           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-11  4:10             ` john
2009-03-11  4:13               ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-11  4:16                 ` john
2009-03-11  4:23                   ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-11  5:14                     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-11  5:23                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-11  5:37                         ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-13 14:45                       ` maht
2009-03-12 15:07                         ` J.R. Mauro

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