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Hardware & UNIX Low Level Tools

1. Introduction
2. Overview
3. Hardware Infos

Here we feature some system-tools for UNIX (e.g. Linux, *BSD etc) and some hardware reviews of components.

 

The DreamMachine: Onyx2 by SGI

System Lab 2. Overview

Computing units are nowadays implemented in different scales (status 2001):

• Supercomputer or clusters (computation) $10k - $10,000k
• Server (computation, file-server) $2k - $1,000k
• Workstation (graphic design, computation) $2k - $100k
• Desktop (office) $1k - $5k
• All-In-One ala iMac (office, thin-client) $1k - $3k
• Notebook (portable office) $2k - $8k
• Tablet PC, Internet Appliance, Web Pad (web-surfing, email) $100 - $1k
• Pocket PC, Palm Top, PDA (notes, agenda) $100 - $1k
• Cell Phone (notes, agenda, WAP, phone) $200 - $1k
• Appliance Controllers (controlling appliances based on MCUs) $5-$50

Nowadays Desktop, Workstations and Server getting very close to each other, and make up with clustering also mini- or supercomputers. Internet Appliances catch up with functionality but are hardly available still (status Feb 2001). It is to be expected IA, Pocket PC, PDA and cell phone functionality will be merged.

System Lab 3. Hardware Infos

Videocards Some infos on X11 & videocards	Keyboards Some infos on keyboards	Monitors some infos on high-end monitors
CPU Lab About CPUs and their longlivety	CDROM CDROM, Music CD, Burning CDs	HardDisk Lab Some infos on harddisks
SCSI Lab Some hints on SCSI	PDA Lab few links to PDA & Unix	Internet Appliance Some infos
IOpener low-cost UNIX	x86 PC Some infos on building a PC	Home Network Home network project
MicroControllers MCU/uC infos	No Noise Noise reduction or ellimination

Hardware Reviews

AnandTech.Com Quality review site (MB, CPU, Disks etc) Tom's Hardware Another famous hardware review site (lot of ads)

There is NetExpress we recommend for custom-build UNIX workstations and servers, check their site as they provide a lot of background infos you don't find anywhere on the net otherwise (mainboards, CPU, memory, SCSI, etc). We are not connected to them, we just like to recommend good equipment and service.

                                                                                                                                   

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