On Tuesday 03 June 2008 17:37:23 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > >> Actually, lots have frame buffers these days. > > > > Cell phones, for instance. > > Sure, but do you want to use them as consoles? A friend of mine hacked his iPhone and got shell prompt on it, and it's quite usable with the touchscreen keyboard. (I very much want a linux box with that form factor, battery life, connectivity, at least that much memory...) And hooking a set top box up to an HDTV gives you better potential resolution than my laptop currently has, on a biiiiiig screen. They already display text for program listings and recorded program menus and such, plus you can add a mouse and keyboard via bluetooth or usb if you like... > -hpa Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
