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Re: Processor types

From: David Maslen <david@binary.net.au>
Date: Sat Oct 10 17:16:19 1998
Newsgroups: comp.sys.wearables

Dale Ghent <daleg@thermite.digex.net> writes:

> 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.

Somebody on the wearables list said there was such a thing, but was
unable to provide a URL. The other ting to check out is the PLEB
project. I haven't got a url either, but try wearable.ml.org

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