Normally I'm a sucker for weird and wonderful hardware, but I'm trying to figure out what the target audience is, and I'm really coming up short. Anyone got any ideas?
Everything I can think of, there's a better alternative available.
Everything I can think of, there's a better alternative available.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/brand-new-laptop-rec...
It's annoying me that I can't get my head around it.
This question can go on and on though. Why a 486 and not a P1? Why a P1 and not a P2?
If I had to guess I'd assume it was purely based on part availability, or cost.
Also top 486s require a heatsink and a fan.
[1] https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/fake-trezor-hardware-crypto-w...
* https://www.cpushack.com/space-craft-cpu.html space shuttle used a 386 * https://www.cpu-galaxy.at/article/cpu_in_space.htm ISS still does too * https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/space-grade-cpus-how...
Probably it was some sort of terminal for industrial equipment; nothing to write home about by today's standards (and yesterday's too for that matter), but could be used for slow and not critical tasks such as EEprom/chips programmer, serial terminal for known soft/hard protocols and signals. I would find useful having one that accesses a shared directory on the LAN then can read firmware files and program chips or read/write on rs232 or i2c busses, work as serial terminal for debugging etc, and other tasks where a laptop could be overkill.