ARM based CPU Netbooks

[Boo2themoon]

Further too but separate from this thread:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39049

Netbook info:
http://smurl.name/5b8h

Demo video
http://smurl.name/e7x3

[mikeb]

Very neat...love that wireless screen and real battery life


I look forward to the day when the power guzzling, excessive heat generating, archaic instuction set , vhs of processors the intel x86 finally gets laid to rest


mike

[DMcCunney]

Very neat...love that wireless screen and real battery life

I look forward to the day when the power guzzling, excessive heat generating, archaic instuction set , vhs of processors the intel x86 finally gets laid to rest

I wouldn't hold my breath. The Intel architecture has successfully withstood challenges from the Motorola 680X0 family, National Semiconductor (NS32X32), AT&T (WE32000) and others, and RISC architectures like the AMD29000, DEC Alpha, HP Precision RISC, IBM PowerPC, and Sun SPARC. DEC is no more. HP is abandoning PA RISC in favor of Intel, Sun is offering boxes with AMD X86 CPUs instead of SPARC processors. Alternative architectures like ARM and MIPS are still viable, but they are niche market. (My router runs a Linux kernel on a MIPS processor.)

The main quirk with the Intel architecture is segments, rather than a flat linear address space, (which drove DOS programmers nuts, because a segment on an 8086 was 64K, and there were six different memory models depending on whether your code and data all fit in one segment or required additional ones.) On 386 and better processors, a segment is 4GB, so the limit doesn't bite as badly...
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Dennis

[aarf]

maybe theses will help
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... em-in.html
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22119/

[mikeb]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... em-in.html

nah just live in an undersized caravan for too long lol

mike

[aarf]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... em-in.html

nah just live in an undersized caravan for too long lol

mike

caravan! shear unadulterated luxury. try fitting all your worldly possessions in a shopping trolley .

[raffy]

Neat - is this the same as saying "cool"?

I want one! But Barry should have his first.

[mikeb]

Neat - is this the same as saying "cool"?

more like neat as in tidy...

good for solar powered internet access in the middle of nowhere

mike

[raffy]

good for solar powered internet access in the middle of nowhere

That's Barry's place, exactly.

Dennis (above) makes a valid observation. Intel has in fact sold its ARM technology to Marvell and chose to focus on the x86.

But given the rich tools that programmers have today, would supporting the ARM architecture still be difficult?

Barry is very familiar with microprocessors, so I hope he comments on this.

[mikeb]

Doh...it's the keyboard that's wireless...I need a brain.

A similar sized netbook here with puppy 4 on it does 2 hours battery tops......

now just need solar powered internet by satellite et voila

mike