smallest piece of hardware that runs *BSD?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Oct 10 09:14:12 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Oct 10), C. Kukulies said:
> 1990: In ten years, computers will just be bumps in cables. (Gordon Bell)
> 
> Remember that quote?
> 
> Now, we are not far from that. I'm thinking of some CPU with TP Ethernet
> and memory of size of an USB stick. Anyone knowing such or having
> experience? 

Lantronix's XPort product is definitely in your size range (embedded
management device built into an rj45 jack), but I don't believe you can
put just any OS on it, though.  It runs on a custom 16-bit 80186 CPU.

http://www.lantronix.com/products/eds/xport/index.html

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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