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Re: SF16


>From: Christopher Biggs <chris@stallion.oz.au>
>To: <MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 7:07 PM
>Subject: Re: SF16
>
>dirnfir <dirnfir@softhome.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake
>thusly:
>
>>
>>Why not 32 bit?  And lots (several MB) of memory... you could make it fit
>>ATX form factor even...
>
>That's too big.  My ideal computer is the size of a deck of cards.
>Something about the size of a current PC104 card is tolerable.  As big
>as a desktop motherboard is Too Big.
>
>(IMHO, of course)

You can get mass-produced cases that small?  If you can that might be a good
idea.  Since this thread is rapidly mutating into "MISC Personal Computers",
I'll toss out some ideas...

- I am assuming that it would use an FPGA...  How fast can those things go?

- Use PS/2 mouse/keyboard ports...  so I can avoid using serial mice...

- For the far future: multi-cored processors anyone?

- Use standard SDRAM...  Nowadays it comes in an 8ns variety.  That's 125
MHz with a CAS latency of 2.  64-bit though.