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From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Robert L. Haar CS50)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Rugged PCs
Message-ID: <45069@rphroy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 15:42:28 GMT
References: <276@hydroesm.UUCP>
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Reply-To: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Robert L. Haar CS50)
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In article <276@hydroesm.UUCP>, mark@hydroesm.UUCP (Mark Notten) writes:
|> 1. Does anyone know of any rugged or MilSpec PC-type boxes
|>    (minimum 386) to be used for real-time applications?
|> 
Grid makes very rugged portables including 386 models. We have one that
we have used for data collection in a vehicle while driving. This involved
heavy hard disk access while drive on Michigan's system of interconnected
potholes that they call roads. 

I don't know about MILS-SPEC, but I do know that the DOD buys Grids
for military people to use while riding in jeeps, etc.

I would recommend them personally. They are well designed and
quite rugged compared to the plastic light-weight models from
the typical laptop vendor.
 
|> 2. Does anyone know of real-time kernels to run applications
|>    in protected mode on this type of box?
|> 
no help there.

	Bob Haar  InterNet : rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com 
	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
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