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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. This'll be modded as offtopic or flaimbait, BUT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Does anyone else feel that it's strange how a website that claims to be all about NEWS for nerds, and spends so much time writing about Microsoft and other technology releases, failed to report on the launch of Windows 2003? Surely there will be a slew of articles bashing it in the coming months, but it would lend to the credibility of Slashdot if you were to at least post an article about the launch of the new target for future scorn.

  2. Re:I'm not comfortable by PerlGuru · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They don't state that that particular project utilizes linux, it simply uses the PC/104 standard for *hardware*. PC/104 is a hardware spec not a software spec.

  3. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Top research prize went to a steer by wire system. This is already employed in race cars and ferrari's alike. How is something already in production considered research?"

    I have yet to see a Ferrari or race car that employs a steer-by-wire system. TROTTLE-by-wire, yes. The only things that I can think of that use steer-by-wire systems are larger ships, most modern military aircraft, and some civilian aircraft like most (all?) Airbus models.

  4. Re:No love for PC/104 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://www.openbrick.com/

  5. Re:Some Good Info on PC/104 by Usquebaugh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's been out for years, nothing promising, it already is a great standard.

    Noob.

  6. Re:Maybe you are by SN74S181 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've heard that the origin of PLC's being called that was because they got some sort of an exception from the Union by not being called a computer. Unions have traditionally been anti-Automation, and anything that says 'computer' on it is bound to be viewed with hostility.

    Maybe somebody can confirm or contradict this. I found it interesting when a friend who's done a lot of industrial control systems told me.