Who makes decent sized static ram these days?

[Michaelwagner]

Yeah, but a waste of a lot of good electronics. A gumstix and display might cost less.

OTOH, 2 SB3s side by side could deliver 4 channel sound :-)

[funkstar]

True, i do agree with you, but i would like the matching cases and identical VFDs

as for the using the GumStix for driving a display, this could work in my kitchen...

[Jacob Potter]

Er, the Gumstix use DRAM, not SRAM.... looks like the 400xm has 64 MB
RAM and 16 MB Flash, which would almost definitely be enough for a
stripped-down SlimServer (or SB/display emulator).

- Jacob

[Michaelwagner]

Er, the Gumstix use DRAM, not SRAM....

Yes, I know that. I was thinking of building a swap space for it.

looks like the 400xm has 64 MB
RAM and 16 MB Flash, which would almost definitely be enough for a
stripped-down SlimServer (or SB/display emulator).

Really? Did they upgrade it? I thought it was 32MB and 8MB Flash.

[tommypeters]

Either directly on the gumstick, or as a made-in-my-garage USB thumb drive for swap space but not a flash drive, with like 16MB of swap on it. If I could make it go at USB 2 speeds, you might not need to go have a coffee and remove 3 wisdom teeth while waiting for the gumstick to chew itself up and actually get booted.

A USB stick with non-Flash memory would be very nice for swap space for us NAS owners as well...

[Michaelwagner]

Exactly. I would have thought there would be a market for such a thing, but so far, haven't found one.

[funkstar]

Apparently there is a new Gumstix computer out there

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/23/g...mini-computer/

"packing a 400MHz Intel XScale PXA255 processor, with 64MB RAM, 16MB Flash, built-in 10/100baseT networking, and a CompactFlash Type II card slot for additional storage"

Memory could be higher for SS 6.5, but the 400MHz XScale is pretty good.

EDIT: also, by reading the comments on Engadget, it appears they will be adding USB in the new year. You ca also use a CompactFlash to IDE converter to get large disks running on the device. cool

[Michaelwagner]

Yeah, I think it's well worth watching them as they grow the memory sizes and capacities of this line. Assuming they can grow the hardware faster than slim can grow the server, they might catch up soon. :-)