Re: bios woes

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:28:42 -0400
Andy Goth <[email protected]> wrote:

: Last year I had a university course on embedded systems. 
: Predictably, the "embedded system" was actually a single-board PC.
:  Rather than use WinCE, I just popped a slightly-modified tomsrtbt
: in the floppy drive.(Yeah, "embedded".)  Then I developed all my
: drivers and applications on a separate laptop, compiled and linked
: statically, and sent the binaries via the network (repeat,
: "embedded").  It worked very well, and my development time was
: always a tiny fraction of that of the WinCE/Visual C++ crew.
: 
: If you have a functioning network under tomsrtbt, you can do the
: same using a server on another computer and wget (snarf) on the
: tomsrtbt host.  Personally I did plain TCP using netcat.

Interesting strategy. I'll remember it for future prgs. 

Although this isn't an embedded system, I've got a 'million dollar'
idea in the back of my mind, but the cost of SBPCs is still too high
for my budget. $1000+ for a prototype is too expensive for me - and
the market for that matter.

This system is still at the sneaker net stage. It's got nics, but
first I'll have to get a modern disk recognized on a 8GB bios board,
and then sort out the various other cards. Fun, Fun, Fun, but first
things first.

	b.