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Texas Instruments Embedding Linux

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the right-tool-for-the-job dept.

darthcamaro writes "Looks like pretty soon Linux will truly become ubiquitous thanks to Texas Instruments new DaVinci System on a chip DSP. The new consumer electronics chip aimed at capturing the Digital Video market is powered by MontaVista Linux. 'TI understands that there is a larger number of Linux programmers than there are DSP programmers,' Huy Pham, DSP System-on-Chip product marketing manager at TI, told internetnews.com. 'What [DaVinci] does in partnership with MontaVista is enables the Linux developer to use the DSP without needing to understand the complexity of programming the DSP.'"

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  1. But... by pedestrian+crossing · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will it run, um, er, Windows?

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  2. Perfect partnership or conspiracy? by mrRay720 · · Score: 5, Funny

    DaVinci and MontaVista (Mona Lisa)? More than a coincidence in the naming there?

    I think we need to get Dan Brown to write a book about this obvious conspiracy - "The DaVinci Source Code".

  3. Monta Vista... by jollyroger1210 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "..is an upper class neighborhood..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta_Vista

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  4. Can't wait for the TI calculator. by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's going to be great -- it'll do square roots, cube roots, nth roots, and root.

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