17 Jan
2014
17 Jan
'14
11:16 p.m.
On 01/17/2014 02:47 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Fair enough - I'd not thought of thin clients.
Foolish, as Froogle
threw up one or two in the results from the page of links I posted.
Oh, the BIOS on these boxes is pretty plain-Jane Award fare--standard
menus, Soundblaster emulation and all. Even has a menu item for legacy
floppies, although the box doesn't have them. USB floppies work fine
though.
I recall taking a drive that I had installed a Debian (Squeeze? I don't
recall) distro on for an HP P3 e-PC and taking the drive and pugging it
into a Neoware CA21 and finding that the system came right up, complete
with network support.
So, if it's not PC-compatible, it's almost so. I'll see if I get a
chance to dump the content of DoM and try it on a standard desktop.
--Chuck
I haven't tried it, but it might be
interesting to see if the WinCE on the
DoM will boot up on a standard desktop box...
I don't /think/ it will - not a standard PC BIOS, I'd expect - but I
could be wrong & I'd be interested to know myself!