From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2006-11-28T19:12:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails on Gumstix

On 28/11/06, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:

> > A dozen 'stix in a cluster has about the same computing power
> > of a so-so pentium3, and costs probably 3 times the price a Sun
> > T2000 (once you sort the networking out).

> well, that is a very real consideration. however keep in mind all I'm
> really trying to do on the software side is emulate a game that ran on
> extremely cheap hardware during the 80s. I mean it sold for like five
> bucks, and that was twenty years ago. Gumstix might be slow but they
> can probably handle "Simon."

Oh, absolutely - I was raising an eyebrow at the cluster idea, not trying
to say you need any horsepower for this job.

I think some 'stix would be a good way of doing the skull
thing (especially if you want to keep the skulls mobile). They've
got a reasonable amount of welly if you're not doing a lot of floating point.

Do you know about the NSLU2? It's still small (size of a packet of
smokes) but its a bit more versatile than a gumstix as it has 2 USB2.0
ports. Debian runs on them these days, so you can probably have any
apps you want.

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