Yeah but what about power consumption?? Interesting idea though... Russell On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Matt Gleeson wrote: :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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