[NCLUG] Moving exported window / ATX PS

[Kirk Rheinlander]

One other thing to consider: Power supplies are a relatively low 
reliability component in the computer architecture. I would think you would 
be working on how to make more than one power supply per motherboard 
instead of the other way around.....

Kirk Rheinlander

At 05:35 PM 10/16/2001, you wrote:
>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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