“… today we can fit the extensive software needed to drive a
World Wide Web server into a computer the size of a box of
matches.”
“It is Jumptec’s DIMM-PC, a single-board AMD 486-SX computer
with a 66 MHz CPU, 16 MB RAM, and 16 MB flash ROM, big enough to
hold a useful amount of RedHat 5.2 Linux including the HTTP daemon
that runs the web server. At relatively low usage levels it
consumes 800 milliwatts from a 5V power supply, rising to 2 watts
at 100% CPU usage.”
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