Nice! with you on most of the early stuff (though technically my dad's, he went on to an R260 - super rare Acorn UNIX machine, and now has 3 Risc PC's running, plus Windoze Laptop and a Win desktop for my mother), went on to have my own risc pc (still going in a modified incarnation). Then, 1999 - AMD K6-3 dual boot with redhat(in parrallel with Risc PC) 2001 - added SONY VAIO laptop to collection, piece of junk now 2003 - "Acquired" SGI Indy (Yeah BABY!) 2004 - upgraded K6 machine to Athlon and Geforce 4 dual boot with Debian 2004 - iBook 12" from SF nicecest thing I've used since Risc PC 2005 - "Acquired" 900MHZ DEC Alpha! with Debian.
pretty sure you can't run tabletpc on it as it's not an x86 chip. It's much nicer than that, hence the 3hr battery life with a dinky mobile phone bettery. Acorn came up with a prototype similar to this nearly 7 years ago (http://www.byte.com/art/9702/img/027ibtb1.htm). Once again they were too far ahead of they're time, too small and too british.
Let's not forget here that intel also makes the high performance ARM based Xscale(terrible name I know) which slot's neatly into the iPod, which is currently using ARM based chips from a different source. So by hooking up with intel it not only gets the main desktop chips it also gets the iPod chips from the same supplier. Can you say bulk discount?
no other chip maker could offer this to Apple, which should pave the way for either cheaper high performance iPod/iPod-esque devices or, more likely, bigger profit margins per iPod for Apple.
Makes sense, no?
I might. I once worked for a guy with a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge(the real one) and a PhD in image processing for medical imagine from UMIST woh thought that endian differences between our SUN Ultras and the Linux machines was an OS difference not hardware..... needless to say I resolved to leave soon after this.
Ben and Gareth's rules of the universe No.1 : "People are fundamentally stupid"
actually the position of the satellite is irrelevant. only the distance matters. hence the need to see more than 3 satellites. Each satellite carries an atomic clock wich sends the GPS a tim signal. that is then compared to the time the gps has. The difference in the times multiplied by the speed of light (3*10^8 M/s) gives the distance of the satellite. Then once you know the distance from 3+ satellites you can locate youself on an ellipsoid
using 3d trigonmometry.
oh dear, I really shouldn't be allowed to post stuff like this should I? I'll go and lie down.
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Nice! with you on most of the early stuff (though technically my dad's, he went on to an R260 - super rare Acorn UNIX machine, and now has 3 Risc PC's running, plus Windoze Laptop and a Win desktop for my mother), went on to have my own risc pc (still going in a modified incarnation).
Then,
1999 - AMD K6-3 dual boot with redhat(in parrallel with Risc PC)
2001 - added SONY VAIO laptop to collection, piece of junk now
2003 - "Acquired" SGI Indy (Yeah BABY!)
2004 - upgraded K6 machine to Athlon and Geforce 4 dual boot with Debian
2004 - iBook 12" from SF nicecest thing I've used since Risc PC
2005 - "Acquired" 900MHZ DEC Alpha! with Debian.
I think I need a life!
it's not that big, really!
pretty sure you can't run tabletpc on it as it's not an x86 chip. It's much nicer than that, hence the 3hr battery life with a dinky mobile phone bettery. Acorn came up with a prototype similar to this nearly 7 years ago (http://www.byte.com/art/9702/img/027ibtb1.htm). Once again they were too far ahead of they're time, too small and too british.
Let's not forget here that intel also makes the high performance ARM based Xscale(terrible name I know) which slot's neatly into the iPod, which is currently using ARM based chips from a different source. So by hooking up with intel it not only gets the main desktop chips it also gets the iPod chips from the same supplier. Can you say bulk discount? no other chip maker could offer this to Apple, which should pave the way for either cheaper high performance iPod/iPod-esque devices or, more likely, bigger profit margins per iPod for Apple. Makes sense, no?
I might. I once worked for a guy with a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge(the real one) and a PhD in image processing for medical imagine from UMIST woh thought that endian differences between our SUN Ultras and the Linux machines was an OS difference not hardware..... needless to say I resolved to leave soon after this.
Ben and Gareth's rules of the universe No.1 : "People are fundamentally stupid"
actually the position of the satellite is irrelevant. only the distance matters. hence the need to see more than 3 satellites. Each satellite carries an atomic clock wich sends the GPS a tim signal. that is then compared to the time the gps has. The difference in the times multiplied by the speed of light (3*10^8 M/s) gives the distance of the satellite. Then once you know the distance from 3+ satellites you can locate youself on an ellipsoid using 3d trigonmometry. oh dear, I really shouldn't be allowed to post stuff like this should I? I'll go and lie down.
Or a Mega-tsunami caused by the collapse of Grand Canaria, the ricochet would proabbly, at least, short circuit London while wiping out NY