From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 19 07:56:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01214 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 07:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01178 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 07:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA04955; Tue, 19 May 1998 10:54:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Stephen Roome cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 May 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > The "Itsy Pocket Computer" is a small handheld computer based on the > > low-power, high-performance StrongARM SA-1100 microprocessor. Our > > current prototype runs at 200MHz on a pair of AAA batteries, and > > sports a tiny, high-resolution LCD touchscreen, a high-quality audio > > codec, and up to 64MB of memory. > [It still amazes me that there are so many better options than Intel and > no-one ever uses them, writing ARM is a damn sight easier than 80x86 code > yet no-one ever writes for what seems to be a cheaper and far superior > chipset.Please excuse my ranting, but I find this overmonopolised (sp?) > industry this somewhat depressing.] "Imagine that Cray computer decides to make a personal computer. It has a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What's the first question that the computer community asks? "'Is it PC compatible?'" Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message