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India Officially Launches Simputer

Posted by timothy on from the high-hopes-still-high dept.

aravind writes "The Communications and IT Minister, Pramod Mahajan, has launched India's indigenously developed low-cost handheld Personal Computer -- Simputer -- at an IT and Communication expo, SMAU 2002, in Milan. A low-cost handheld PC on GNU/Linux working through a browser for international markup language IML, priced at Rs9000 (less than $200). 200Mhz StrongArm processor, 32MB DRAM, 24 MB flash, touchscreen, speakers, USB, text-to-speech, MP3 capability ... " Look here for some of the previous stories we've run on the Simputer.

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  1. Re:Linux by mdechene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, next you're gonna want us to stop calling the old MS OS's "Windows 9x", and refer to it as DOS with food coloring.

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  2. Re:Available outside India? by k4biR+5uxXoRs+KoX · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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    they're going to be available wherever my mom's pussy is. wedged inside. oh baby. i can smell it now.
    1. just like india. fuck you. fuck rms. fuck cmdrtaco. peace out bitches.
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    i fucking rule!! you fucking don't. bitch.
  3. Re:Linux by dbm1175 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wouldn't the proper label be "the GNU Operating System using the Linux (TM) kernel"?