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Re: Crusoe versus StrongArm, Super H, etc.

On 1/20/00 7:05 AM, R. Paul McCarty said:
>It seems like the only real advantage of Crusoe over StrongArm is the
>fact that you can move existing desktop applications, 

StrongARM processors are more integrated than Crusoe, but Crusoe has far 
more power than StrongARM.  If you look at   Work-Done/Watts consumed, I 
think Crusoe will come out way ahead.

For instance, if you need any floating point work its difficult to get 
much done on a SA because there's no FPU.

>If full blown Windows, and Linux ran on StrongArm would this product
>still be as exciting?

Linux does run on the StrongARM processor.  Not all platforms that use 
the SA can run Linux, but there's a lot of work underway to port Linux to 
various SA processors.  The most obvious example of an SA running linux 
is the Netwinder.

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