[luau] No hard drive, only compact flash card

[Mark Pettit]

>I am very suprised no one sells PC like this.  All of the ones I found were
>cash registers or the like, no general purpose PC's.  I would think this
>would be great for routers, firewalls, etc.  High high availabilty stuff.

Given all of the limitations that have been described, I don't see how
it's all that useful to use CF in a high-availability environment like
a router or firewall.

PCs are cheap enough now that you can deploy a pair of fully-redundant
PCs running Linux (or any other Unix-ish OS), on relatively fast hard
drives, for a few hundred dollars.  Why would you do anything else?
Why bother with the added complexity of CF?

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Mark K. Pettit
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