On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Brian Glenn (NC) wrote: > 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? If this is true about Compaq it is really serious and bad for the society. Of course it is very easy for software developers if there is only one hardware, only one OS etc, but to keep the evolution going we need manifoldness and I would not have believed that Compaq would be in that urgent need for that quick and dirty money. Ok we still have some other forks on the chip family tree, like the powerpc but for how long? In the long run it would maybe be nice if there could develop a kind of free chip, a hardware equivalence to the GNU/Linux OS, but that is probably still far away in the future.. Or..., any ideas ? /Roland Orre -----------------------------+---------------------+----------------- Roland Orre | O---O---O Studies of|SANS, NADA, KTH | |\ /|\ / Artificial|Wph:+46 8 7906984 S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden | O-O-O-O Neural |Hph:+46 8 4463160 -----------------------------+ |/ \ /| Systems |Fax:+46 8 7900930 Dept. of Computing Science | O---O-O +---------|Mob:+46 70 8269748 Royal Institute of Technology| |http://www.nada.kth.se/~orre -----------------------------+----------+---------------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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