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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2006 08:46:47 +0000
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] serial reboot boxes
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Maybe I'am alone in this, but I would like to find a tiny, single board
computer that would run plan9. It would need to have ethernet, one or two
serial ports, and some general perpose I/Os. I would chose an PPC or ARM cpu
and a price-point of around $50.

If I had such an SBC I would write an app to set the GPIOs and which
could control mains relays or reset pins on CPU servers:

	cpu -h sysctl -c gpio -waggle pin2

One of these would also become my auth server.

-Steve