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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PC/AT clones with RISC cpu
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Date: 1 Nov 90 14:26:20 GMT
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In article <2081@aber-cs.UUCP>, pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>On the subject of a SPARC based PC/AT clone:

Well, heck with that! How much trouble would it be to build a PC-clone which
could double as an X-term? I'm talking about a one-piece board with built-in
Ethernet and 2MB of RAM, and a '386, add a couple sockets for ROMs. 

You crank many of them out in Taiwan, sell them as dirt-cheap clones, or add
the ROMs and a high-res monitor and you have Mr. X-term....

I guess the best bet would be a modified PC-clone, with the built-in Ethernet,
some support for a local disk, and an option to replace/toggle-between the
ROMs for bootup.