On Sun, December 2, 2007 10:54 pm, heinrich.dutoit wrote:
> Hi
Hello Heinrich,
> I've emailed twice to as listed on the web-site.
> (clicking on the website link so I couldn't have mistyped)
I'm not sure why your e-mail wasn't answered. I typically get several
e-mails forwarded to me every day which originally were to info@ ... but
in this case, somebody has to look at the e-mail first and decide who it
needs to be forwarded to. Sometimes it's a question I can't answer and I
have to forward it on myself.
> Didn't receive any replies and it's been a week.
> How can I order something from a company that doesn't even reply email?
I wouldn't recommend waiting that long for a reply. A more reasonable
time would be a day or two; less then that and we may still be working on
a reply, while beyond that if the message was missed it's likely scrolled
off the top of the inbox screen and might be missed. If you have to send
your message more then once, I would also recommend CC-ing it to other
addresses (you can CC it to me if you like), just in case somebody is out
sick for a couple days or something.
> And I can't call them since there is a 9-hour time difference between
> my home and Arizona.
If you call after hours you should be able to leave a message, and there
is also a fax number.
> Anyways here is my questions:
> 1. Does Tech Systems still exist? And how "good" is there services?
> 2. How long will the TS-7200 and TS-7250 still be on the market?
Per our home page, "Technologic Systems has never discontinued a product.
You can count on long term availability when you include our SBC's and
peripherals in your design."
> 3. How dificult is it to program ISA stuff on this board. Ie. say I
> have an ISA type board that is plugged in on the PC/104 extension, how
> easy is the programming.
This is a difficult question to answer because there are many variables.
If you are familiar with programming for the PC/104 bus on other hardware
this knowledge should easily translate. Likewise if you have programmed
for hardware on other busses, you will mainly have to learn the
differences between the busses. In addition, there is the question of
whether or not you need to program directly for the PC/104 bus : some
devices come with Linux device drivers and are programmed through an
abstraction. In the case of other devices like A/Ds the typical method
will be to mmap() the memory region containing the registers for the
device, and then manipulate the registers through pointers.
> 4. Can I run ssh server on the board?
Yes.
> 5. How difficult is it to add extra linux libraries to the onboard
> system, say I need them for some application of mine.
For our systems which run Debian Linux this is typically fairly simple,
except in a few cases where there are platform or kernel version specific
code.
For our older TS-Linux distribution, the focus was on producing a compact
distribution that could fit in 8 or 16MB of onboard flash; there, the
process of adding software is manual, meaning that you will need to
determine all the files that need to be installed and copy them to the
correct location.
> 6. Is there any plans for a PC-104-PLUS board? Will ISA be dropped in
> the future?
There are no plans for a PC-104 PLUS board. I don't think any of us know
for sure what busses will be on future boards as it will depend on future
demand, but our existing boards with PC-104 (which is practically
everything) isn't going away, and to me it seems pretty likely that PC-104
will be around for a while.
> 7. The ISA on the PC104 header.. is it limited to 8.3Mhz, or can it go
> faster?
It can go faster, although technically this is "overclocking" and not
recommended unless you know for sure what you are doing. ;-) On the
TS-7800 the minimum cycle time is 60ns. I'm not sure what it is on the
TS-72XX boards, but since they are EP9302 based it is probably documented
in the EP9301 user manual.
> 8. Can I do development from ubuntu? (as this is based on debian) Any
> body have experience with this?
I'm running Ubuntu on my machine and I haven't had any problems. The
crosstools are fairly distribution agnostic.
> 9. I know you get discount if you buy 100.. but can you get discount
> if you buy say 25 or 50? I'm working at a research lab and 100 is
> quite out of reach.
I think the price breaks start at 10 units for most products... but I
think you will need to call or fax for a quote... or you might try
> Thanks
> -Heinrich
> iThemba LABS
> South Africa
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