Yes, and the interesting part is that a few of us on the braillenote list have been asking for a port of linux with no response from pdi. I had also asked during Humanware's chat sessions what was the reasoning for going with windows ce, and the response was because it's a "mainstream operating system". Greg On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 11:24:16AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > We believe the chip in the Braille Note is the NEC VR41xx. > > Several of us joined in a project to port Linux to the Braille Note this > time last year. We were unsuccessful when Pulse-Data would not supply > units for us to work with. > > That's the real issue--one would need to be able to take the risk on > blowing away a few Braille Note boards, and especially the flash roms, > before one got it right. That would be costly to most of us, myself > included. > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
