[SC.LUG] Bill Gates to be Knighted?

[Rick [Kitty5]]

Ian Molton wrote:
> They did - they doubled the speed of it. but podules are NOT
> proprietary - full specs are available, and the chips used are simple
> memory mapped devices - all off the shelf.

They are propriety when you can only connect them to equipment from a single
vendor. The fact that the specs are available is beside the point.

>> Anyway, A 600Mhz xscale machine for £1399! Who the hell are they
>> trying to kid!
>
> You produce one cheaper.

Lets see, I could buy a xscale based ipaq, attach a keyboard, networking and
video out and give it plenty of storage space for half the price. Hell, it
will even run Linux.

That said, I could just buy a cheep PC (with the same gfx and ram as
castle's effort) and run Linux for half the price, and it would
substantially outperform any xscale device.



Rick

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