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 Shuttle XPC SB52G2Mark: Good This is a 2004 model, for Intel P4 Socket 478 cpu, based on Intel 845 / ICH4.  
This was marketed as a quiet, compact server box.  It was noteworthy at the 
time as their only model offering 2 available PCI slots, plus dual NICs 
(a 10/100 and a Gigabit).   It provides 2 IDE controllers.  You can have 
up to 2G of RAM, though I only have 1G installed.  Like all Shuttle XPCs, 
you assemble  it from a kit (adding cpu, hdd, RAM, & optical drive that 
you purchase on your own), but there are good step-by-step instructions, 
and the whole process is pretty accessible to the novice.  
 
I've run eCS 1.1, 1.2, 1.2R, and -- briefly, just for testing -- a couple 
of the 2.0 betas or release candidates on it.  The chipsets built into the 
small form factor mainboard (audio, video, both NICs) are all satisfactorily 
operable by drivers that are supplied as standard with eCS.  That said, only 
two of the eCS installs mentioned above could be fully accomplished without 
expert assistance and intervention.
 
PEER install normally fails, with various errors.  This means that components 
from that point on in the eCS install never go on.  TCP/IP for internet _may_ 
have to be done manually (or at least tinkered with) in a separate pass.  It 
seems to me that the dual-NICs fatally confuse the eCS installer, as it 
presently exists.  (I filed a Bug Ticket on this with Serenity, quite some 
time ago, but nothing ever came of it.  It is significant though, as dual-NIC 
hardware has become much less exotic in recent years.)  
 
Even with everything properly installed, only one NIC will be active at a 
time, without reconfiguring eCS; the other one is "not found" at boot-up.  
Under Windows, they are "hot-swappable" at will.  
 
All things considered, this double-shoebox-size computer has been quite 
a good performer.  Not much from its full-size counterparts is really missed.  
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    |  eCo Software is working with the translators of eComStation / IBM OS/2 Warp since the end of 90-th.
 We have released russian version of
 some Fixpaks for Warp 4, eComStation 1.05, .. 2.1.
 LANGE library, co-operation with european translators.
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