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[Mike Fineberg]

I'll start off with how much I hate PC vs. *nix vs. Mac discussions. They've been done to death for the past 20 years...

I know most of you are PLUGs, but you're not helping :->

Let's stick to PSU and adapters.

Speaking of which - I was going to avoid the extra $20 for the audio header cables and simply make my own - where can I find the pin-outs? I have the PDFs, but I can't seem to find the information.

Regards,
Michael

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On 30/08/2003 at 2:24 PM Bernard Blackham wrote:

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>> >Why the hell would you run dos/windows for mp3 playing?
>> 
>> Easy - no start up time. no shut down time. no disk checking.
>> That's what you need for a car mp3 player... It's not a matter of
>> it being a 'good' OS, it's a matter of a fast, very, very small
>> OS.
>
>If you're stripping it down that much, you can get Linux to boot on
>them in about 25 seconds (I just timed it):
>
> - 16 of those seconds are the BIOS which you can't do all that much
>   about even in DOS
> - 6 seconds loading a stripped down kernel (which I'll post
>   somewhere soon)
> - your MP3 playing program, whatever.
>
>I've got an xterminal image up that basically loads the kernel,
>brings up networking and starts X. Nothing else.
>
>It's a race against DOS, but you'll also get native networking and
>remote access - you could enable you SSH or FTP server (an extra
>second or three) and copy files on, etc etc etc.
>
>I too ask why DOS? To use more than 640KB of memory, HIMEM.SYS
>generally takes a few seconds to kick itself about. And it's just
>that much less powerful.
>
>My opinion only. Feel free to pick at it, please :)
>
>Regards,
>
>Bernard.
>
>-- 
> Bernard Blackham 
> bernard at blackham dot com dot au
>
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