Linux has indeed been ported to the Hitachi SH-4 (http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/). The Sega Dreamcast uses the Hitachi SH-4 as its CPU (Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC CPU @ 200MHz). I have been going to mention the possible use of the Dreamcast for wearable purposes for a little while now, as it has many features that would serve the purpose of wearable quite well. It is a fairly small unit (could be made smaller by custom casing etc), already has a composite video out, also has straight VGA out capability, can interface both keyboard and mouse via PS/2 to DC controller adapter, has built in "GD-ROM" capable of reading normal CD media, is able to interface to IDE devices (via a hack: http://www.ma.nma.ne.jp/~ikehara/dc/dcwdc.html) and has an ethernet adapter available after market for the unit (or there are hacks out there to use standard PCI, I believe) - and the thing comes standard with a 33.6kbps or 56kbps modem (depending on country I think). And let's face it - what could be better than being able to have a game anywhere we want as an added bonus? =) Regards, -Matt Gleeson. At 12:29 31/07/01 -0400, Thomas Edwards wrote: >I'm sure someone will port Linux to the Hitachi SH-4 Risc, if it hasn't >happened already :) > >-Thomas > >On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Carol Stein wrote: > > > I am NOT attracted to a commercial wearable with Windows > > CE! > >-- >Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of >"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to>Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org >please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Matt Gleeson Multimedia Developer/Blackboard Administrator, Multimedia Unit Griffith Flexible Learning Services ISL 3.38 Information Services Building Logan Campus, Griffith University University Drive MeadowBrook, 4131 Australia Email:
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