In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We can "picture" it, but such a system can't route a full 100mb/s ethernet,
> so its fairly useless as a network device/router as is proposed here.
You're a real guru. Right. ISDN gives you about raw 192 kBit/s (144 kBit/s
on the S0 bus) to work on. Of course this can't be sent across a 10 MBit/s
link. How could I forget that.
The device might also get used in a battery powered secure mobile device for
EFT applications so even AOL users who don't have anything but fairly
useless credit cards won't starve if they have to shop for their groceries
at a street market. The developers would probably have preferred an ARM
based solution to start with (to quote Apple's Newton team: "it offered more
mips per Wh") but its power balance is quite ok and the device is able to
sort out itself whether it has to upload its accumulated transactions via
serial or ethernet. Securely.
No go and pray your "buy a bigger CPU and a hotter power supply" mantra
somewhere else, it's getting tiring. Hand grenades aren't always the solution
if all you try to is chasing a rabbit.
Noses.
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