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The darwin kernel (based on mach) does not have processor affinity support.
This should be too much of an issue. Unless you are running processes that a) use 100% CPU for long periods of time and b) use a fairly consistant set of data while doing it, you're not going to notice any...
To elaborate further, it would work fine.
Using linux bridging you could bridge all the cards connected to PCs so that the router effectively act as a switch (or hub, I'm not sure which really applies in that case). The performance would be hindered by the PCI bus bandwidth though.
The...
Actually, there is a windows xp embedded. See the site for it at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/xp/default.asp. As to how to obtain a copy, i have no idea.
All my drives are in 24/7 use
8GB WD Caviar - 6+ years
9GB Seagate SCSI - 1 year
18GB Seagate SCSI - 2 years
(4) 23GB Seagate Elite 23 - 2 years
120GB IBM Deskstar - 6 months