Well, I got around to booting the QNX 4.0 demo floppy on lil 'proto-wearable' - 486dx4/100, 32M, onboard video, IDE, & floppy. I won't say its the fastest thing in the world, but not quite as bad as I had feared. Overall, I'm rather pleased. Photon comes us 640x480x4bit (nice to see it can handle odd color depths) on the built-in chipset. The resolution should have been higher - I'll have to play with that. However, it's a pretty good approximation of a crude vga HMD, and its actually usable :-) QNX has drivers for some lcd's but I'm not sure if they're freely available. I'll have to look. The demo floppy contains the Kernel, TCP/IP, ethernet, Photon, a web server & a web browser - that says good things for disk usage! And they even had room left over for some 'fluff'. The demo requires a 386+, 8M RAM, Floppy, & Mouse (or serial port), & video. Mechanix -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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