Here is an interesting question. Why do all these machines use 200MHZ processor? BrailleNote uses this one, another device that I know of, it's being developped, uses the same one... Can't they use something faster? Try to open a 1000-page Word file and you'll see what I mean! Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: <philwh@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:50 AM Subject: Re: New Braille Notetaker From Papenmeier > If they are using the processor that I think they are, > it is the strongarm 200mhz processor. > It is plenty fast enough for most applications. > While I was working at blazie engineering and the freedom scientific > we started to develop such a device. > I had a development machine > based on this processor running linux, > and it was a very nice system. > phil > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:26:55AM +0200, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > Hi, > > This definitely makes my mouth watter! This thing does sound like a good > > alternative to BrailleNote. The price, if Janina's word turns out to be > > true, is a bit too high though. Some of the tech specifications are a bit > > snicky: 32-bit RISC processor does not indicate its speed, Linux does not > > indicate the version of the OS they are using. But, I think it was a great > > idea to use Linux instead of Windows CE. > > Well, let's see! > > Victor > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
