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Will Cunningham
Howdy,
I am new to XPe and have been reading through the newsgroups and
experimenting with XPe sp2. I have been asked to put together an
industrial PC that will interface with some hardware controllers. I
am hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to where I could
start looking to find and appropriate PC. One of my main concerns is
that I find something with long term availability that supports 1394a
and 1394b.
The PC will interface with the hardware controllers via the 1394b
interface. We have a software demo and hardware controller simulator
up and running under Xp Pro on an off the shelf system. The
performance of our demo setup is pretty good. The current hope is
that by switching to XPe and leaving out all the unnessicary
components, we should be able to improve the overall system
performance a bit. I realize that XPe isn't a realtime operating
system but I figure the more stuff we can leave out of the image the
better off we will be, particularly the security enhancements. This
will be a closed system not connected to outside networks or the
internet.
The PC system we are using for the demo unit is an XPC Shuttle system
(small form factor mini-atx) intel P4 3.0ghz, 1GB ram, 80GB HD, ATI
video card, ect. We would want something similarly equiped, but
including 1394 and gigabit ethernet and long term availability.
I think we would prefer to have a whole package system, but if we had
to buy the long availablity components and put them together ourselves
I don't think that would be the end of the world. Any suggestions
about where to find something like that?
As a side note, I just wanted to thank all the frequent posters. I
have been reading through thousands of old posts and it has helped
tremendously in getting up to speed on XPe. I appreciate all the time
and energy you guys have spent making this such a good resource.
Thanks!
Will Cunningham
I am new to XPe and have been reading through the newsgroups and
experimenting with XPe sp2. I have been asked to put together an
industrial PC that will interface with some hardware controllers. I
am hoping that someone might have a suggestion as to where I could
start looking to find and appropriate PC. One of my main concerns is
that I find something with long term availability that supports 1394a
and 1394b.
The PC will interface with the hardware controllers via the 1394b
interface. We have a software demo and hardware controller simulator
up and running under Xp Pro on an off the shelf system. The
performance of our demo setup is pretty good. The current hope is
that by switching to XPe and leaving out all the unnessicary
components, we should be able to improve the overall system
performance a bit. I realize that XPe isn't a realtime operating
system but I figure the more stuff we can leave out of the image the
better off we will be, particularly the security enhancements. This
will be a closed system not connected to outside networks or the
internet.
The PC system we are using for the demo unit is an XPC Shuttle system
(small form factor mini-atx) intel P4 3.0ghz, 1GB ram, 80GB HD, ATI
video card, ect. We would want something similarly equiped, but
including 1394 and gigabit ethernet and long term availability.
I think we would prefer to have a whole package system, but if we had
to buy the long availablity components and put them together ourselves
I don't think that would be the end of the world. Any suggestions
about where to find something like that?
As a side note, I just wanted to thank all the frequent posters. I
have been reading through thousands of old posts and it has helped
tremendously in getting up to speed on XPe. I appreciate all the time
and energy you guys have spent making this such a good resource.
Thanks!
Will Cunningham