Re: Multia 166 performance

[Jeff DeMaagd <jdemaa17 calvin edu>]

> > <offtopic>
> >   Speaking of small, integrated little boxes, does anyone on this list
> > have any experience with Corel's NetWinder? If so, what do you think
> > of them?
> > </offtopic>
> 
> One of my cow orkers bought one.  If they'd just put an external scsi on it,
> it would be like UDB Mark II.  Pretty neat looking box.  I don't know if they
> fixed the original limitation (which seemed pretty damn strange to me) of not
> having expandable memory.  Like the UDB, they should have put in better
> graphics (8 bit colour sucks).  I think it would make a decent web server or
> ftp server for a server farm, and a cool hobby box if you had a "real" machine
> for serious work.

Ok, thinking this was fishy, I checked netwinder.org, and 16 to 24 bit
color is in the specs.  That guy should check his configurations.  A
rackmount version with UW SCSI is being developed.  As far as I can tell,
the thing is fairly well decked out for a 'thin' client.  64M RAM,
PAL/NTSC in/out, modem, 10 AND 100 MBPS networking connections (separate
and simultaneously usable), and a few other interesting oddities.  I do
agree that SCSI is going to be needed for their target market of doing a
workgroup server.

I want get one next summer, especially if a television directly as a
monitor.  Make a nice X-term, huh?

JRDM