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Re: Processor types

From: Dale Ghent <daleg@thermite.digex.net>
Date: Wed Oct 7 12:34:52 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

Jonathan Nesbitt <ra8862@email.sps.mot.com> shaped the electrons to say:
> What type of processors do you feel are best suited to the wearable
> environment?
> I'm thinking motoroloa microcontrollers like the 6811/6812.

For now... the 486 chips are the best... interms of a power
consumption/performance trade-off. The chip that would be splendid for
wearable computers is the the StrongARM chip. Very fast, very low power
requirements. Unfortunately I havnt heard of any StrongARM PC-104 boards
being developed right now, but I suppose that will change in the
(hopefully) near future.

			-Dale G.
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Dale Ghent
DIGEX, Inc.
daleg@digex.net
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