Re: net6501: doesn't start if not first unplugged for 8 minutes

>C) Intel, wanting to avoid the bad publicity that would result from their
>component's failure when used in a supposedly "super reliable" machine
>built entirely around it, makes a simple deal with Soekris: we'll pay the
>costs of ALL warranty replacements for your boards that die due to our chip
>biting the dust. And further, pay for you to scrap your current inventory
>with the bad part.

Maybe it's just me ... but this is the part that I find unlikely.  Why
would a huge company like Intel do that?  They already admitted that a
similar problem exists in related chipsets.  If that is true, and Soekris
made that deal ... bad move on their part.  It looks to me, as a third-party
observer, that with the canceling of the 6801 and radio silence on all
other fronts that it is extremely unlikely there will be any new hardware
forthcoming, and Soekris has gone into "maintenance mode".  Which is a
shame; usually an advantage with small companies is that customer serivce
is better because they know that is one way they can compete against
larger companies.  But since it seems like they don't stand behind their
products I guess it's time to move on.

FWIW, I just powered off my net5501 two weeks ago and replaced it with
an APU2 from PCEngines.

--Ken