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From: rhyde@gibson.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
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Subject: Re: List has been quiet lately. What's the hardware project status?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 00:17:24 GMT
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Add my name to the eth532 list as well.
Seems like an expensive design?  Only if you think of it only as an
ethernet card.  Actually, I look at it as a parallel processor.  If the
parts kit for
it is reasonable, I might buy several as a way of adding several 32x32 uPs to
the system.  No need to plug in serial or ethernet chips.  I just want the CPU.
Too bad it doesn't take 4Meg SIMMs, 16 megs would make me much happier than 4.
Likewise, if it had two SCSI chips, I could offload the file manager on it.
Of course, by then I'd have a third PC532 so I may as well buy another board
right?  Wrong!  I want it all to fit in the same case!  Oh well, it was a nice
dream, back to reality.  
Nonetheless, I could live with the eth532 as a parallel processor as
long as the parts kit is less than the PC532.