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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Adam Wiggins wrote:
> Myself and a few other comp sci/eng studnets at the Uni of NSW,
> australia want to do a little pocket linux box project. To get the ball
> rolling we have to decide on a suitable chipset. I'm writting to ask what
> the best arcitecture for this project would be. We need a low cost, low
> power usage chip with a bit of grunt and with a solid nitch in linux
> support. Mips comes to mind though i'm not sure of the power usage of
> these. We'd rather not deal with intel though we may have to.
> As well as the cpu we need a support chipset for standard i/o
> using the laptop based interfaces like pcmcia or other popular standards.
> The focus is nice cheap low power consumption hardware while maintainning
> good software support from linux.
> Please relay your comments.
>
> Cheers Adam
>