> > > My only concern with this netwinder thingy is that Compact now >owns the rights to the Strongarm chip and has allreadly "considered" >selling the rights for both the strongarm and the Alpha to Intel. Which >would of course just kill the chip's devolpment. And on another note does >anyone know when the projected date for the second generation for the >netwinder is (I would like to get one but I want to wait till the second >gen). So any additional info out there about either of these conserns? > Intel *does* own the rights to most of the StrongARM. They can do a lot to it but cannot change the instruction set (Thank The Lord!) as the ARM8 core is still owned by Advanced RISC Machines in the UK. (Intel just holds a really broad license) And it seems Intel is all gung-ho about the SA as a low-end/embedded platform. (Even though the SA-110s' integer math is somewhere in the PII performance range...:) I've heard a few things about the next StrongARM (SA-120)...seems Intel is doing a good job of enhancing the SA without corrupting the design. As for the NW V2.0..no idea. Go to www.netwinder.org (it's the developper site, not the commercial site: www.corelcomputer.com) and check out how to get on the mailling lists. > Mr. War > > (The Four Horsemen of the NCSA MacLab) > > ##########//New College\\########## > #5700 North Tamiami Trail Box 241 # > #Sarasota Fl 34243 # > #(941) 360 5174 # > ## > #www.sar.usf.edu/~maclab <--info # > #www.sar.usf.edu/~bglenn <--mine # > ################################### -- Eric LaForest Nascent Linux Borg -www.ncf.carleton.ca/~di458- #define Hacker !(Cracker) //FYI: http://sagan.earthspace.net/~esr/ Breaking into computers does not make one a hacker, for the same reasons that hotwiring cars does not make one a mechanic... paraphr. from ESR -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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