From: "martin.m.dowie" <martin.m.dowie@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:53:41 -0000
Date: 2002-01-31T19:53:41+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ugh68.3939$sU.598211@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bqo0YdSM4fq$@eisner.encompasserve.org
> I don't understand much about this, so please explain.
> I presume SBC stands for "single board computer", sort of an industrial
> Heathkit with all the soldering done.
>
> So what good is an SBC to someone building a rocket ship or a subway ?
> They aren't really going to build it with SBCs in the production units,
> are they ?
Well, I don't know about rocket ships, but for Mission Computers, Radar
Systems, Digital Moving Maps, Helmet Mounted Displays, etc. Yes! That's
exactly what systems are using.
The current flavour of the year seems to be PowerPC 750/7400 boards with
some NOVRAM, ethernet, rs232 etc.
see http://www.dy4.com for examples of such SBCs.
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2002-01-30 23:09 Ada's Slide To Oblivion Volkert
2002-01-30 23:57 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 3:04 ` Richard Riehle
2002-01-31 3:05 ` Eric Merritt
2002-01-31 16:26 ` Richard Riehle
2002-01-31 16:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-02 15:51 ` Zach Swanson
2002-02-02 19:18 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 4:43 ` Richard Riehle
2002-01-31 14:37 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 15:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-31 17:16 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 18:32 ` Steve O'Neill
2002-01-31 18:27 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-01-31 19:22 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 20:40 ` Christopher A. Bohn
2002-01-31 21:08 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-01 14:22 ` [off-topic - to lighten the air] Wes Groleau
2002-02-01 2:31 ` Ada's Slide To Oblivion Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 16:51 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-02-04 17:49 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-04 18:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-05 9:04 ` DPH
2002-02-05 14:46 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-05 16:37 ` Wes Groleau
2002-02-05 17:22 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-05 18:42 ` Preben Randhol
2002-02-06 21:37 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-02-07 11:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-05 13:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-02-06 7:07 ` Anders Wirzenius
2002-02-01 2:26 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-01 14:27 ` A. Nonny Mouse
2002-02-01 17:18 ` Dale Pontius
2002-02-06 2:37 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-06 7:31 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-02-06 21:27 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-06 22:03 ` Ian S. Nelson
2002-02-07 1:44 ` Philip Cummins
2002-02-07 13:56 ` Ian Wild
2002-02-07 17:25 ` Ray Blaak
2002-02-07 19:20 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-07 21:36 ` David Brown
2002-02-08 10:36 ` Ian Wild
2002-02-08 12:23 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-02-08 12:51 ` Ian Wild
2002-02-08 14:28 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-08 15:52 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-02-08 13:08 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-08 21:28 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2002-02-08 21:45 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-08 22:44 ` Darren New
2002-02-09 0:39 ` David Brown
2002-02-18 3:54 ` David Thompson
2002-02-06 14:59 ` Ian S. Nelson
2002-01-31 18:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-01-31 2:37 ` Jim Rogers
2002-01-31 15:02 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 18:28 ` Steve O'Neill
2002-01-31 19:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-01-31 19:53 ` martin.m.dowie [this message]
2002-01-31 20:06 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 21:06 ` Steve O'Neill
2002-01-31 22:28 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 19:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-01-31 18:41 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-01-31 19:52 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-01 18:31 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-02-01 12:28 ` David Gillon
2002-02-01 21:02 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-02 4:05 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-02 12:51 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-02-04 15:58 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-02 4:02 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-02 17:35 ` tmoran
2002-02-01 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-01 16:56 ` Nick Roberts
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2002-02-06 7:02 Christoph Grein
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