Didn't someone put this together with the BOCHS BIOS at some point? That would enable booting an OS from disc in the more conventional fashion, as well as supplying all the icky legacy stuff you need to run DOS.
Or if you have a grudge against Castle, there's always the Microdigital Omega which may be released one day...
Both companies produce ARM7500FE boxes, as does RiscStation limited, but these are relatively slow. All of these machines run RISC OS 4 (although Omega is claimed to have RISC OS 5). Castle seem to be the most organised company ATM.
And if you look at the bottom of the page, it quite clearly states that RISC OS is copyright Pace Micro Technology plc. They are not even claiming that RISC OS is their own. Besides, the code in question is only a small part of the OS.
Why on earth would they want to sue Linux developers, anyway?
Hmmm... I have a Palm PDA which I keep synchronised with Outlook under Windows and Evolution under Linux. I can then export information from Outlook to my Datalink watch. It should also be possible to send to my phone, but I haven't got that working yet.
This allows me to share address book, memos, appointments and to-do lists between systems. I gather that the iPaq also synchronises bookmarks, which would be quite useful for PalmOS as well. No doubt conduits could be produced for other things.
RISC OS 4 is still 26 bit. However, Pace are now developing RISC OS and appear to be working on 32 bit mode. The big question is whether they will produce a version which will work on desktop machines such as the RiscPC and its upcoming replacement, Imago. As you can probably imagine, this is a growing concern for the RISC OS community...
P.S. It's RISC OS. There is another OS called RiscOS which has nothing to do with Acorn/Pace/whatever
Mice/trackerballs/touchpads are ideal for desktop control because they just require the hand to be moved across a flat surface. Touchscreens or gloves which are waved around would be very tiring on the arm. Keyboards are very user-friendly and don't require memorising gestures for each letter/symbol. Voice recognition is all right but is only designed for word processing. When a system is produced which does not require correction, people might have the option of buying computers without keyboards
I think that the next stage of interfaces will be cybernetic implants. People will then be able to control computers just by thought. However, I think that this is still a long way off.
Well, I've played a couple of Solitaire games under Linux and they beat the windows version! For a start, the Windows version only allows one type of game. One of the Linux versions I tried (Ace of Penguins IIRC) allows several variants of the game.
The standard pattern of Linux game development seems to be that someone sees a game, ports it and then decides that it needs more features. A stunning example is Rocks 'n' Diamonds, which appears to have started off as a port of Boulderdash...
Anyway, what are we actually talking about? Oh, yes, Office for Linux... Isn't KOffice supposed to be that?
Why stop at a P100? 486s or even 386s could run Linux. In fact, that might be a good idea- spot a company throwing away some old machines and suggest putting Linux on them. A great way to introduce them to the system.
I am starting to get the impression that the division between power users and masochists is almost invisible...;-)
I remember when I first heard the phrase "Bootstrapping binaries" and thinking it sounded as if it belonged on a porn site...
Perhaps what we need is a sort of anti-technospeak to avoid putting people off. Rebuilding the kernel could be renamed to "Putting the tiddly bits together", mounting could be called "Looking at the disc"... Any other thoughts?
Of course there is the question of what people would be doing with it. For office use, it's probably not quite up to it (although Koffice might help there) but that's not the only use. Perhaps there should be an extra field of "What is done better on Linux?"
Of course there's the matter of installing new machines in a computerless office, but those are few and far between these days!;-)
I imagine we're one generation on from the assembler vs. high level language argument. With optimising compilers getting better, the advantages of assembler seem to be diminishing. Now we'll have people on one side saying "Use these libraries, it's easier!" and the other lot will be saying "Yes, but it's more efficient if I write my own code". Until someone brings out a librar handling thingy that optimises to the extent that you can't tell the difference... Of course by then we'll be moving onto something else which isn't quite as efficient but is much easier...;-)
Or am I getting to cynical?
I'll third that. I only bothered with 2- / and swap. The problem with partitioning is that you're then stuck with one particular shape. It's like buying a biscuit making machine and then deciding that you're going to make cakes.
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They do exist; one of the companies responsible for testing them is based next door to where I work.
Didn't someone put this together with the BOCHS BIOS at some point? That would enable booting an OS from disc in the more conventional fashion, as well as supplying all the icky legacy stuff you need to run DOS.
Put the network card drivers in a ROM and stick it in the boot ROM socket?
Something like RISC OS? That's had the entire OS in ROM since the 1980s.
Element 14 was bought by Broadcom.
Or if you have a grudge against Castle, there's always the Microdigital Omega which may be released one day...
Both companies produce ARM7500FE boxes, as does RiscStation limited, but these are relatively slow. All of these machines run RISC OS 4 (although Omega is claimed to have RISC OS 5). Castle seem to be the most organised company ATM.
And if you look at the bottom of the page, it quite clearly states that RISC OS is copyright Pace Micro Technology plc. They are not even claiming that RISC OS is their own. Besides, the code in question is only a small part of the OS.
Why on earth would they want to sue Linux developers, anyway?
They cannot release the source because they do not own it.
That's nothing. The Microdigital Omega has a real time clock with day, date, month and year!
I've had 3 Iiyama VM Pro 512s die in the last year, with at least 2 of them sounding as if they'd had capacitors go pop. Might this be related?
One lasted 3 months, the next lasted about 6 and the third only lasted 4 weeks!
Hmmm... I have a Palm PDA which I keep synchronised with Outlook under Windows and Evolution under Linux. I can then export information from Outlook to my Datalink watch. It should also be possible to send to my phone, but I haven't got that working yet.
This allows me to share address book, memos, appointments and to-do lists between systems. I gather that the iPaq also synchronises bookmarks, which would be quite useful for PalmOS as well. No doubt conduits could be produced for other things.
P.S. It's RISC OS. There is another OS called RiscOS which has nothing to do with Acorn/Pace/whatever
NetBSD/arm32 needs a huge abount of work done on it. It lasted about 2 months on my RiscPC. Debian has been on there for about 8 months.
Ah, but money and religion are 2 different things.
I think that the next stage of interfaces will be cybernetic implants. People will then be able to control computers just by thought. However, I think that this is still a long way off.
The standard pattern of Linux game development seems to be that someone sees a game, ports it and then decides that it needs more features. A stunning example is Rocks 'n' Diamonds, which appears to have started off as a port of Boulderdash...
Anyway, what are we actually talking about? Oh, yes, Office for Linux... Isn't KOffice supposed to be that?
Why do I get the feeling that someone's had one deathmatch too many? ;-)
To get crumbs/dust out of keyboards, hold vertaically and bang on desk. It's surprising how much comes out!
How about MP5? Or is that a machine gun?
Of course they still need space for them... ;-)
I remember when I first heard the phrase "Bootstrapping binaries" and thinking it sounded as if it belonged on a porn site...
Perhaps what we need is a sort of anti-technospeak to avoid putting people off. Rebuilding the kernel could be renamed to "Putting the tiddly bits together", mounting could be called "Looking at the disc"... Any other thoughts?
Of course there's the matter of installing new machines in a computerless office, but those are few and far between these days! ;-)
I imagine we're one generation on from the assembler vs. high level language argument. With optimising compilers getting better, the advantages of assembler seem to be diminishing. Now we'll have people on one side saying "Use these libraries, it's easier!" and the other lot will be saying "Yes, but it's more efficient if I write my own code". Until someone brings out a librar handling thingy that optimises to the extent that you can't tell the difference... Of course by then we'll be moving onto something else which isn't quite as efficient but is much easier... ;-)
Or am I getting to cynical?
Isn't that what quotas are for? ;-)
I'll third that. I only bothered with 2- / and swap. The problem with partitioning is that you're then stuck with one particular shape. It's like buying a biscuit making machine and then deciding that you're going to make cakes.