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AMD's Personal Internet Communicator

Posted by michael on from the in-a-box dept.

mstefanus writes "SFGate.com has a story about AMD's 50x15 Personal Internet Communicator (PIC). It is basically a PC with an AMD Geode GX500 366MHz processor, 10GB hard drive and 128MB Memory; running some form of Windows CE. The device is intended as a cheap internet PC for the rest of the world population. AMDBoard has some pictures and specifications. The question is, will it run emm... FreeBSD?"

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  1. Re:A modest proposal by petsounds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps the Western world has advanced technologically farther in the last 20 years than the last 5000, but we have certainly not advanced much farther as a society. In fact, in some ways ancient Greece was a more civilized society. And what do we have these days? Basically a 2nd Roman Empire, this time as the Pax Americana -- civility and peace through superior technological and economic might. Except we're not doing quite so well as the Romans.

    The one point I agree with you on is that giving these people internet access would open the floodgates of cultural exchange and gathered knowledge, and the sharing of ideas is the best way for humanity to evolve.