-=> Shawn Highfield wrote to Nicholas Boel <=-

 SH>   Will probably go back to it at some point, but for now the power
 SH> sucking monster tower is running 24/7 for the sole purpose of running a
 SH> windows XP virtual machine with the BBS. 

Yes, I've got rid of my power hungry servers.  Now it's just a handful of Pi
boards. :)

 SH>   I have a bad windows 10 install on it, that I just can't get fixed,
 SH> so one day soon I'll have to re-install something on the host OS for
 SH> that computer, keep debating between a linux distro and windows again.
 SH> Though wish someone made a x86 based board like the pi. ;)

There are x86 boards around, but they are generally more expensive.  I have a
couple of older ones here that sit alongside the Pi's.  One is an Alix 1d
board, which is a Mini-ITX board, max power consumption 15-18W.  This is used
for an IRLP node, as it has a functioning hardware printer port.  The other is
an Alix 3d3, which is a smaller embedded type board with 8W power consumption. 
This board is used as a VPN router for my public IPv4 addresses.

As these are older boards, they are a bit less powerful than the R-Pi 2 or 3,
and the use CF for storage, instead of SD cards, but they do work.  I'd be
surprised if something more modern didn't exist in the embedded PC space.


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