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PC/104 Embedded Consortium Design Winners

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the best-of-the-best dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The PC/104 Embedded Consortium announced the winners of its first PC/104 Design Contest, at the Embedded Systems Conference today in San Francisco. The awards recognize engineers designing innovative systems and devices based on the consortium's PC/104 and PC/104-Plus standards. Winners were announced in three categories: Commercial for industrial/medical/transportation/other; Commercial for military/aerospace/COTS; and Research Project. Read the full story at Linuxdevices.com. Lots of images!"

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  1. wait a sec by B3ryllium · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean full sized keyboards on laptops, numpad and all?

    Kickass! :)

  2. Whew! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I am just glad to see that US Nuclear Submarines are not running Windows!

    Just imagine, the nuclear weapon officer's screen lighting up the conn (a sub's control room) with a blue glow.. not pretty...

  3. Re:WOW by toddestan · · Score: 3, Funny

    I could see using an AMD Athlon processor in a hot glue gun. Not only would it melt the glue like crazy, you could run Linux on it! Now imagine a beowolf cluster of hot glue guns... oh... maybe not then.