They aren't competing with the Palm, they are competing to be in the Palm and other portable devices. Their real competition are the Intel StrongARM and Motorola Dragonball Z chips.
if im not mistaken(and im not), the palm runs off a motorola dragonball z, and the draginball seriese and the crusoe are not even nearly in the same market.the dragonball is a 20mhz 16 bit risc chip(pr is it 32 now?), the crusoe is a 128 bit 700 mhz vliw chip, and the crusoe uses about 5 times as much power, the crusoe is intended for laptops, and net appliances, at low power. The drgon ball series is meant for small embeded device, things thta require not to much complexity or performance, but at a low price, and bery low power.
i bought to of their cards that said they worked with linux, the manual gave no clue as to what i had to do to get them to work with linux, but i called tech support and they gave me a url on there site with instructions, all it was was a dec tulip based card, works fine in suse on my p1 66 mhz.
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tonight i had the suprise honor of getting to meet with a broderbund/mattel interactive employee at an awards ceremony. This employee had worked on the childrens software that used this agent, she told me that during development whether or not to include the agent to talk to the server was a very controversial topic, most employees did not want it, but managment did, and managment won. But unfortunatley she could not tell me what data the agent sends out.
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They aren't competing with the Palm, they are competing to be in the Palm and other portable devices. Their real competition are the Intel StrongARM and Motorola Dragonball Z chips. if im not mistaken(and im not), the palm runs off a motorola dragonball z, and the draginball seriese and the crusoe are not even nearly in the same market.the dragonball is a 20mhz 16 bit risc chip(pr is it 32 now?), the crusoe is a 128 bit 700 mhz vliw chip, and the crusoe uses about 5 times as much power, the crusoe is intended for laptops, and net appliances, at low power. The drgon ball series is meant for small embeded device, things thta require not to much complexity or performance, but at a low price, and bery low power.
i bought to of their cards that said they worked with linux, the manual gave no clue as to what i had to do to get them to work with linux, but i called tech support and they gave me a url on there site with instructions, all it was was a dec tulip based card, works fine in suse on my p1 66 mhz.
tonight i had the suprise honor of getting to meet with a broderbund/mattel interactive employee at an awards ceremony. This employee had worked on the childrens software that used this agent, she told me that during development whether or not to include the agent to talk to the server was a very controversial topic, most employees did not want it, but managment did, and managment won. But unfortunatley she could not tell me what data the agent sends out.