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Subject: Re: The end of embedded Linux?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 11:11, simon@baydel.com wrote:
> This is my dilemma and I am sure it is shared by others. For this 
> reason I cannot see how anything but an embedded PC with 
> applications or a perhaps a very simple hardware device could be 
> considered as an opportunity for  embedded Linux. 

Certainly the sort of things I was talking about didnt extend to unique
gate arrays for one internal board. [BTW that also came up in the large
computing world too - we never merged a driver for the AP-1000+ fddi
because there were only two cards on the planet 8)]

Alan

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