hurley bryan wrote: > How is this different than the uCSimm that is a 30 pin SIMM, or the credit > card linux that is pretty much the same that was mentioned on Slashdot on > sunday? It's not different. ucSimm is a dragonball based system. But availablility of the boards is somewhat questionable. I waited a long time then finally gave up and cancelled my order. -- Doug > Bryan > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Bryan Andersen wrote: > > > Charles J Knight wrote: > > > > > > > On the topics of flexible circuitry, big belt buckles, modules > > > > in collars, etc. These are all great and interesting ideas. > > > > > > Hey, noone ever said that we weren't a creative group. > > > > > > > But the goal was low cost and simplicity. I have to wonder > > > > what the tradeoff of cost vs benefit on the flexible circuits > > > > at this point. Seems to me we would be better off sticking to > > > > traditional PCB methods for now. If people want to then take > > > > > > True. A set of specs and some schematics are our goal at > > > this point. Next comes a prototype. If someone wants to build > > > it into a collar or belt buckle, so be it... The case isn't the > > > important part, though it is important to a total, univeral design, > > > if it ever becomes commercialized. > > > > Simplicity is kinda the reason I mentioned a Palm Pilot like > > device. I've looked at what it take to make a Motorola DragonBall > > based system. It's simple. Most of the tricky stuff is integrated > > into the DragonBall. It directly interfaces to both RAM and FLASH > > memory without extra components. It will drive grey scale LCD > > pannels up to 1/4VGA size. Onboard seial is 1 Async UART (RS-232 > > compatible) and one IC2 compatible serial port. You could add > > extra serial devices if you wished using some of the address decode > > logic to address them. It would be no problem making it on one PCB > > of less than 3"x4". One could also provide for expansion on a > > second PCB quite easily. The only real difficulty is dealing with > > surface mount components. > > > > -- > > | Bryan Andersen || http://softail.visi.com | > > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | > > | -Bryan Andersen | > > > > -- > > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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