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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Russell McMahon wrote:

> Found this on AVR List - was apparently from alt.comp.embedded
> RM

> You might want to check out the Hewlett-Packard Industrial Ethernet
> web site: http://www.hpie.com/

Odd: it appears the CPU-and-ethernet development board is ~$645 US, each!
They dont list prices for the actual board though.  Contrast this to the
quite-spiffy uCsimm board: $175, DragonBall, >4M RAM, Flash, ethernet...
http://www.uclinux.org/

more info, from http://www.hpie.com/datasheets/bfoot66501/index.html

"Node applications are powered by a 68000-class microprocessor.  Nodes are
pre programmed for rapid integration and conformance to standard
interfaces with 384Kb FLASH ROM and >1Mb RAM allocated for user
customization."

uses VxWorks as the OS.


- j