X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to hobbyplat-bounces using -f Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: beattie AT server DOT pdx DOT beattie-home DOT net To: Don Walker Cc: Agenda-snow-disc AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net, hobbyplat AT delorie DOT com Subject: RE: [Agenda-snow-disc] 5-inch by 3-inch device runs MicrosoftWindows XP ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: hobbyplat AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: hobbyplat AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Don Walker wrote: > Still, this begs some questions... We have been very focused on a PDA > platform. We have the opportunity here to look at the metaphor we are > working towards and question it a little. A modular system perhaps > interconnected by bluetooth or 802.11b might be an interesting concept. > There is nothing to say that we have to stick to the Palm inspired form > and function we are used to. To be more specific, what I am looking for, is a computer: 1. that I can afford ($100-$300) 2. carry in my pocket. 3. running off batteries with at least a 12 hour run time and 7 day standby time. 4. designed to be used handheld 5. can network. 6. can support Wireless networking > > Obviously at this stage there is nothing to stop us from turning the CPU > board into whatever we want, but before we dump some cash into a case we > might want to kick around some alternative ideas. > What do you have in mind? I owuld point out, that the cheapest hardware solution to the PDA is a deditcated PDA circut board with the CPU on board. It was decided (and I concur) that it would be a good approach to put the core on a seperate board. To be cost effective, this board shoudl have nothing on it that will not be used in it's projected environments. The core functionality that I have heard discussed so far, is just CPU/RAM/Flash. I am open to discussing other functionality. The SoDIMM formfactor is 2.6in wide, the length we can play with, but if we want to fit in the Vr3 footprint it is limited I would think to 2 - 2.25 in. Brian Beattie | This email was produced using professional quality, beattie AT beattie-home DOT net | standards based software. Users of Microsoft | products or other substandard software should www.beattie-home.net | contact the author about receiving a Free upgrade to | FreeBSD or Linux. "FreeBSD: The power to serve"