23 Nov
2009
23 Nov
'09
2:16 p.m.
On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Brian Lanning wrote:
Nearly all of them do, but they may be on other types of connectors.
Primarily for
embedded applications. They're not intended as
general-purpose "desktop" computers.
Some of them look really proprietary while others seem to have the
normal
compliment of PC compatible internal and external ports. I worry about the
bios though. I might have to swap in the bios from a more garden
variety
motherboard, if that would even work.
Huh? Why?
Ideally, I'd like to buy one with all
the memory and processors already installed and have it just work
like a
normal PC, albeit with a huge number of slots and a goofy form factor.
Well. I'd not get too excited about them. They're just PCs,
nothing special. They were (and still are) used in lots of high-
density and embedded applications where the designers were too lazy
to use a real embedded computer. There's nothing particularly
special about these machines.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL