Does anybody know anything more about the SMOS card PC which has been discussed slightly. The product looks very promising and as I understand the price is not very high as far as can read from the data sheets at http://www.smos.com/ well, they claim the price to be about $500 starting with 1000 cards... which of course may be at least doubled for single items. Does anyone have a better picture of the single item price with 133 MHz 32Mb and where to buy it (thinking about the not yet released PC586 card, but the 486 is not bad either, the speed difference is only 33% they say. The main advantage for the 586 is a better display potential with 1024x768 in 256 colors. Anyway, the card has its great advantage as being very compact as long as you manage with just a "standard" all-in-one PC. The problems which has to be dealt with are then a smart LAN-interface and a smart sound iterface. Are there any good serial port to wireless LAN interfaces available? Before the PCMCIAs there were a lot of parallell port LANs on the market, maybe there is some for wireless LAN as well? Considering sound there are parallell ports solutions also there, I actually have one of those for an old lap I had, PortaSound+, but the unit is larger than both this PC and an IDE drive togheter... and it may be hard to find Linux drivers for those anyway. On the other hand isn't the ISA bus provided on the EASI interface? which would give us a potential of a lot of "simple" solutions. I'm also considering the P5/P7. Is it really hard to just convert a (S)VGA signal to this one, with just a little extra hardware with some changes in the display scan rates and a software tilt of the contents with 90 degrees. Has anyone tried to do something like that? Best regards Roland Orre
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