Experiences Programming on Cyclades Term Servers?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 6, 2001 @01:51AM from the looking-before-making-that-long-leap dept.

Sunda666 writes "I just got my hands on the Cyclades TS800, which is a terminal server with 8 high-performance serial ports, and 1 fast ethernet port that happens to run MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux. This thing has a small RAM (16Mb) some SSD (8MB), and a PPC@48MHz processor. We plan to develop apps (mostly serial-to-eth gateway software, but anything goes) for it, and I'd like to have some feedback from the Slashdot crowd of sucess/failure histories, hints and stuff. So far I'm loving the little blue thing (embedded webserver, ssh, nfs, and RAS software - almost all open source!) - sweet." Sounds like a sharp little machine. How we do these things perform in production?

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Re:Just got a couple by Sunda666 · 2001-12-06 13:16 · Score: 2, Informative

In fact, MontaVista offers their "journeyman" edition for download. It seems to include all the cross compilers needed for the 8xx (ix86 host). Unfortunately all PPCs around are running MacOS ;-), and installing HH in them is a bit rough ;-)

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