[NCLUG] Moving exported window / ATX PS

Jeff Moe jeff at themoes.org
Tue Oct 16 18:35:35 MDT 2001


On Tuesday 16 October 2001 03:33 pm, M Butcher wrote:
> Q#2
>
> Aaeon sells industrial systems that use "CPU cards" with a "Passive
> Backplane." As far as I can tell, this is more or less what you are looking
> for...

I looked at a number of these that were mentioned along with a few others. 
They're definitely cool, but they ain't cheep. I would like to stick with ATX 
for price/performance.

For kicks I hacked the wires on an ATX power supply and put two motherboard 
connectors on it. It workz as long as you don't mind having to power them up 
simultaneously. I would like to track down some gear that lets me measure how 
much the PS is drawing to see how many more boards I can pile on.

> Some of the CPU cards support DiskOnChips instead of IDE or SCSI... if
> that's what you are getting at when talking about "no hd".

I was thinking netbooting--no local storage.

Thanks to everyone for suggestions,

-Jeff



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